If you’re new to the group, welcome. I hope you’ll find the resources here helpful. It’s a digital library—or maybe just a manic flutterblast—of what little I’ve learned about investing and life over the years after being incarcerated in psychiatric wards and hospitalized for severe mental-health issues. Two stays of which, came while maintaining this blog, which is kind of hilarious.
But if you found this page out of curiosity, or because of a sexy screenshot that might have stirred your FOMO instincts. Stop. Take some time to yourself and learn before you trade with live money.
Slow down and think: Why would I ever want to follow the crowd?
The point of this blog is not to tell you what to buy, but how to find your own ideas. Because if you haven’t figured it out, now is not the time to be buying much of anything. Most all the big opportunities were in March and April.
Yes. Anyone can get wealthy in the stock market really quickly. But you can only do that if you wait for the right conditions to pounce. And to have the investing chops to be able to recognize those opportunities in seconds after waiting for sometimes months, or maybe even years, you’re going to have to first build your financial acumen.
It’s true. There’s no shortcuts to financial freedom—or at least ones that are sustainable and won’t blow up your brokerage account. So put in the work and due diligence first. Read! Learn. And while you’re studying, make sure you’re doing something to make the lives of your friends and neighbors a little better.
Afterall, that’s the only path to true happiness. Not money, but a true purpose for existing on this spinning globe.
-Best
Tweedle
