The Truth About Investing - What I've Learnt Since Sep 2021.
@drandy:
Whilst I had dabbled in stocks/shares early, I only got into serious, formal investment in Sep 2021. For experienced investors and/or those with a keen eye, you'd have realized that my formal entry into the stock market happened around when the bull market was at its peak. At that time, any and every other stock one had put money into would result in a positive return - it didn't matter if the stock was a solid one like Google or a dubious one (I won't name names but think along the lines of some of the meme stocks out there). Euphoria was everywhere and everyone was swept away by it, me included. As much as I thought I had done DD in the stocks I bought, what was green in my portfolio in late 2021 started to turn red as 2022 came. Buying into the idea of investing rather than trading, I h