I'm going to show you how many days it's going to take for your bank account to cross the $1 million mark.

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Summary

The creator explains a mathematical formula for calculating how long it takes to reach a $1 million savings goal based on initial investment, interest rate, and monthly contributions. He walks through the variables of the formula and provides a hypothetical example.

Structure

1Hook about reaching $1 million
2Introduction of the mathematical formula
3Breakdown of each variable in the formula
4Example calculation with specific numbers
5Final result of the calculation

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10:23:57:33 10:23:57:32 10:23:57:31 10:23:57:30 1000000 = IV(1 + .08/12)^(12x) + MC * {[(1 + .08/12)^(12x) - 1] / (.08/12)} 1000000 = IV(1 + .08/12)^(12x) + MC * {[(1 + .08/12)^(12x) - 1] / (.08/12)} 1000000 = IV(1 + .08/12)^(12x) + MC * {[(1 + .08/12)^(12x) - 1] / (.08/12)} around 10.5% 1 + .08/12)^(12x) + MC * {[(1 + .08/12)^(12x) - 1] / (.08/12)} + MC 1000000 = 100(1 + .08/12)^(12x) + 200 * {[(1 + .08/12)^(12x) - 1] / (.08/12)} 100(1 + .08/12)^(12x) + 200 * {[(1 + .08/12)^(12x) - 1] / (.08/12)} 1000000 = IV(1 + .08/12)^(12x) + MC * {[(1 + .08/12)^(12x) - 1] / (.08/12)} x = 44.30689789

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I'm going to show you how many days it's going to take for your bank account to cross the $1 million mark. Now this formula took me about 12 hours to create. Seriously, it took me 12 hours. Almost went a little crazy. So save this video or get your pen and paper because this is the formula you need to write down. Now the first number is 1 million. So it's where you want to get to. So if you want to get to 100,000, you can change this number to 100,000. And the next interval is IV, which stands for initial investment. Now this is how much money you're going to put up upfront that you want to start investing into the stock market. That is the interest rate over each and every year. Now on average, the S&P does a little better than this. And then on the top is going to be 12x. Now X is how many years it's going to take to get to this point. So this is what we're solving for. The next interval is MC, which is your monthly contribution. So it's how much money you can save up each and every month that you will dollar cost average into the stock market every single month. All right, so for this example, we're going to do an initial investment of $100. And then we're going to do a monthly contribution of $200. Both insanely realistic. So you plug this into the formula and X or the number of years comes out to just over 44. So it will take 44.3 years to get to $1 million.