5 Years of Stock Investing
๐ฅณ Last week, I celebrated my fifth year as an investor and my fifth on eToro. In these 5 years, the S&P 500 $SPX500 returned 89% while my portfolio returned 580%. I was able to ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐๐ฎ ๐ฒ.๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ง๐จ, and I'm currently the Popular Investor with the best 2 year and 1 year returns. Even though it looks great, it is not that simple. At some points, I was down 30% when I first started. I've not gone through a bear market yet and I cannot really call myself a good investor before that. However, I've learned a lot during these 5 years.
๐ฐ The main reason why I started investing was not actually to invest but to trade to solve my money troubles. I started with $100 on eToro which was half my monthly income. I opened a highly leveraged trade in oil $OIL and made $24. I thought that this game was easy but the next day, I lost $56. In the first six months of trading, I lost nearly $700 on $2000 invested. That's when I decided to ๐๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ก๐ช๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง. Today, I'm one of the approved value investors on eToro. As a Value investor, My returns improved as I've returned 58% per year or 850% in 4.5 years.
โ๏ธ I was always sharing my analyses (even though they were not as good as today) and eventually, I got copiers as my stats improved and ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ช๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง. At some points, I decided not to do a Masters' Degree in Theoretical Physics and focus on investing.
โ๏ธ I still had some problems with my portfolio, I had too many stocks, at some points I had 32 and all of them were correlated with each other and with the market. Apple $AAPL was over 20% of my portfolio. I decided to ๐๐ค๐๐ช๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ฃ ๐จ๐ข๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ก๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐๐ค๐ง๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง. I took profits on Apple and invested in Skyworks Solutions $SWKS instead. Gradually, I started investing in special situations, doing arbitrage, I invested in a bankrupt company until I saw the greatest investment ever, GameStop $GME . The stock was a cigar butt stock on a brink of a short squeeze and nobody was talking about it.
๐ธ So far this year, I've made 170%. To go from 170% to 200%, I need only 11%. That's the power of compound interest. For compound interest to work, we need to ๐๐ค๐๐ช๐จ ๐ค๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ก๐ค๐ฃ๐-๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข.
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