Originally Posted by SSlow

Good on you for timing the market correctly, but my experience has been quite the opposite. Last year when I was bored on reserve I thought I would get into day trading with some play money...and whew boy was it ugly. When I finally threw in the towel I was down like $2k or so, which was sad considering that even the village idiot could've turned a good profit in 2019 by just buying and holding pretty much anything. You live and learn...

So starting in 2020 I swore off day trading and decided to just buy and hold for awhile in hopes of turning a small profit...and you can probably guess how well that has turned out so far. I sold on the way down since I might be needing that money if this all keeps up. Safe to say that was my last foray into the stock market for now. I learned my lesson, and that is there are much better minds suited for this kind of stuff, and I am not one of them. I'll just settle for being the airplane driver.