A collection

I began stock trading just six years ago during right before covid times. I had extra money, and my buddy said invest. Unfortunately for me, I started with crypto. I bought at the top, some meme coins hoping they would continue to moon. Then plunge, all because one billionaire goes on Saturday night live and says dogecoin is a hustle. Well after that, those meme coins all dropped hard, I panicked, sold, and lost some money. I stopped.

A few months later I looked into stock trading as it was a less volatile way to make money. I barely knew anything. I started researching penny stocks, which might as well be investing in crypto again. That didn't work, not yet anyway. The next step was to invest in large companies that paid dividends and were consistent. That worked. I made some money investing in Coca-Cola.

I started heavily researching individual companies. I noticed a strong correlation to politics and stock trading. At the time all the political talk in 2021-2022 was "The Green New Deal." I knew Biden would sign it. I started looking for green energy. I refined my company search to solar and hydrogen companies like Sunnova energy (went out of business), plug power, fluence energy, excelerate energy and many more. I took the money I had, not much we are talking a few thousand, and broke it up into those companies. Now "The Green New Deal" did not make it to Bidens desk but, the inflation reduction act was passed, and it included money for green energy.

All those stocks started skyrocketing up. I took that few thousand and made thousands more. As a new trader, I sold early and sold all of it when I should have taken small profits. But I was hyped that I made some sort of profit.

After trading for several years now, I noticed a similarity in trading stocks and one hobby I had when I was a kid.

Continued in A Collection Part 2.......