Deleted my Fidelity app off my phone a few days ago — feeling a lot less stressed. 😌

I graduated college in March 2023. I got my first job that same month, and by July of 2023 I completely paid off my student loan debt. Thankfully, it was only $5,500, so I wasn't burdened by $100K student loans like a lot of people are.

Anyway, I started investing in August 2023, and I've been incredibly religious with funding my brokerage account and Roth IRA each month. I started with just $110 in August 2023. By February 2026, my investment account was sitting at $33,000 at its peak. As of today, with the war with the Iran and the resulting skyrocketing fuel prices, my account has dropped to around $30,500 - $31,000ish.

That's not too terribly far off my peak of $33K, but it's quite stressful when I check my Fidelity each day just to see it continue to go down. I haven't sold a penny of my investments, so my losses are only on paper, but it's still stressful seeing that continuous downward line each day.

I've developed a bad habit of checking my Fidelity account multiple times a day to get that hit of dopamine of seeing the line go up, and well, with the way the market has been recently, I definitely haven't been feeling that dopamine. I would say it's turned into an addiction of constantly checking my Fidelity account, and it's definitely not healthy.

I haven't closed my Fidelity account, but I deleted the app off my phone a few days to remove the temptation of constantly checking it, and it's like a massive weight has been lifted off me. I'm feeling way less stressed now, and with how volatile the market has been, I don't want to make an impulsive destructive decision of selling instead of holding and waiting for the rebound.

From now on, or at least until this volatility settles down, I will only be checking my Fidelity account from my computer, and I will only be checking it at the end of each month when I make my Roth IRA contributions.

I'm in it for the long-term, anyway, so it's not healthy or beneficial at all to be constantly glued to my Fidelity account like I'm active trader when I'm most certainly not. I'm very much a buy and forget investor, but I still can't help but constantly check my Fidelity account to see how my investments are doing.

It's not healthy or sustainable, so I've deleted the app off my phone and I'm feeling way better. On my phone, I have the convenience of being able to just use my finger print to instantly check my Fidelity account, whereas on the computer I have to manually enter my username and password, which requires a lot more effort, so I'm not nearly as tempted to check it all the time.