<prompt> Human: I am 28 years old man earning an annual salary of . In the recent half a year I read several books and browsed a bunch pages of websites on personal finance and they totally changed my old mind. In this just half a year, I paid off my student loan and car loan with a total balance of over 35,000, saved up a three month cash for emergency and opened and Roth IRA.I cant explain how excited I was at the time when I contributed my first 1000 to my Roth IRA. I seem to be able to see that as I keep depositing 450 per month in the future my asset in IRA will grow automatically and sooner or later make me a millionaire by my age of 60. This morning I got my paycheck and yes as the rule I was to pay myself first -- to contribute my second 1000 to my Roth IRA. Unfortunately, when I logged in my personal Vanguard account, I saw my original investment of 1000 had dropped to 994.6. It is such a strike that I suddenly lost a ton of confidence in such a plan of investment. Reasonale tells me short term drop wont affect the long run result, while emotionally I still cant accept I am lost money just in my first try. Thank you for all Redditors response. I agree I might have made too much fuss. It is mainly because of the timing I think. If my 1000 first went up to 1010 then dropped back to 1005 then Id have not cared about the .5 drop. Whatever, I will follow your advice just keep investing and check the status maybe half a year a time.Thanks for all again!Should I just close my eyes and stick to my investing plan without thinking about it?  <response>: Stop paying attention to short term performance. Its irrelevant, and a highly financially destructive habit. 