How much Money i made Investing in the Stock Market after 1 Year

About a year ago, I started investing in

the stock market, and it's kind of been my

number one interest and hobby right now.

It's the main thing I feel really

interested in and into. So I thought I'd

make a video about how much money I've

made after investing in the stock market

for a year now. Well, it's been a very

bumpy ride. Things started off very, very

well. I guess you could call that

beginner's luck. And then things kind of

went bad, and then they kind of

stabilized, and then they started to get a

tiny bit better. Trying to make money off

the stock markets and trading and

investing, it's weird because it can be

very easy at some times, and then other

times it can be very difficult. Since I

started investing, I think I've made every

single mistake that anyone could possibly

make whilst trying to invest and trade,

and I've learned a lot since I started.

It's kind of like everything in life, you

can't really expect to be good at anything

straight away from the beginning. It takes

time to learn a new skill. And investing

and trading is just like any other skill.

You need to put time and effort into

learning how to do it. And if you also

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Okay, so that's my intro. Next, I want to

show you my portfolios and show you how

they're doing. So I've got several

portfolios and this is one of them. It's a

copy trading portfolio, basically.

You just copy someone else's portfolio and

every move, every trade they make, you

also make it. It's kind of like mirroring

what they do. And it's kind of funny

because out of all my portfolios, this one

is the one that's done the best. As you

can see, I'm copying this guy. I blanked

out his name just in case he doesn't like

me showing his name. Well, I'm copying

this guy's portfolio. He's the number one

most popular portfolio to copy on this

website called eToro. And after a year, I

put about— I think I put £3,000 into it

in total. And after a year, he's gotten me

an 18.58% gain over the year, which is

actually pretty good compared to my other

portfolios, which are down like 40%. So I

think this whole copy portfolio trading

thing is a pretty good idea. It's very

hands-off. You don't really have to do

anything. You just decide how much money

you want to put in. And basically he

manages the portfolio for you and you can

check out his profile and then you can

find out about his experience and his

history, career history, what kind of

person he is, what kind of investments he

makes. You can check out his entire

portfolio. He's got stuff like Microsoft,

Ford. He's got a lot of stuff. He's

basically got a very good,

well-diversified portfolio, which I should

have had. And if I had one as well, I

wouldn't have had such big losses in the

beginning of this year. So if you want

like a hands-off approach to it and you

want someone else who's got more

experience than you do, I mean, this guy

has, what, 10 years plus experience

trading and investing. And I thought I

could do better than he could when I only

just started and I only had like a few

months experience. I thought I'll just put

a tiny bit of money into his portfolio

because I think I can do better. Well,

that didn't turn out very well, did it? I

guess you have to have some degree of

trust in the person. You've got to believe

that they know what they're doing. And

yeah, if they make a bad trade, then

you're going to suffer the consequences of

that bad trade as well. Hopefully you pick

someone who has a lot of experience and

they know what they're doing. And the rest

of the stuff I have on eToro is just

crypto stuff. I had a bit of Ethereum

that's up nicely, up 45%, and I

got some Doge and ADA,

which are not doing very well. Okay,

so this is my second portfolio. It's my

second biggest one, my second largest one.

And as you can see from this line graph

over the past year, wow, what a story this

tells. So I originally put in about, I

think, £6,500. Yeah, you can see I'm up by

£4,680. Finally, this is my second

portfolio to get back into the green after

you can see this complete utter chaos that

happened. So I started off— this is where

I started off in the beginning, back in

October last year. I put in $2,000, I

think, in the beginning. Yeah. And I added

more. I think I added another $4,000 to

get up to here. That's just me adding

money when it goes straight up. So I

finished adding money around here. So I

had about $6K. And it just went up and up

and up like this. Amazing. If you want to

know which stock I got at this time, I

only had one stock, mostly just one stock.

It was NIO, this Chinese electric car

vehicle company, and it was just going up

and up and up. I bought it around $40. It

went all the way up to about $60. And at

the time I was thinking, yeah, investing,

you've got to buy and hold. You're not

supposed to sell. You've got to buy and

hold it as long as possible because It's

just going to go up and up and up like

this forever and never come down. That's

what I thought when I first started

investing. And then around February,

everything just came crashing down around

here. The Nasdaq had a massive correction

of, I think, about 10%. But some stocks,

most of the stocks I had came down about

40%. So NIO crashed all the way down from

about $60 all the way down to about $35.

And all my profits in this portfolio, I

had nearly £11,000,

had nearly £11,000 in this portfolio at

one point, came all the way down to about

£5,000-ish. And I panic sold. I sold all

my NIO and I switched to different stocks.

I took all the money out of NIO and I put

the remaining money, the £5,500, into more

stable things like oil stocks, Bank of

America, banking stocks, JPMorgan, and

also Walgreens Boots and some tobacco

stock, which is— these stocks are called

value stocks. They're more stable. They

also pay a dividend. And as you can see,

it's just kind of gone in a flat line.

It's not really gone up much recently. It

has started to go up a little bit, but it

hasn't really made much, hasn't really

made much gains, much profits. But the

good thing is it's not constantly crashing

like this, which would have happened if I

carried on holding NIO. NIO was just all

over the place. You get more stable stocks

like banking stuff, oil, electric utility

companies, it'll be more stable. It won't

go up by much, but then it won't suddenly

crash by loads either. And this page

compares my investments to the All-World

ETF, which is basically just an index fund

that tracks all of the markets globally.

It says it's an index that includes

roughly 3,900 holdings in 50

countries. So as you can see, my

investments versus the all-world ETF are

actually, actually worse. I would have

made more money, only slightly, but I

would have made more money if I just put

it all into this all-world ETF, which

started off here when I started, and then

it just slowly, slowly went up like a

roller coaster. Damn, I can't believe at

one point I had an 80% gain on my NIO

trade alone. If only I sold right here. I

should have sold here. I would have been

like this, flying up at 80% gains,

completely destroying this all-world ETF.

But nope, I just held and held and held,

getting greedy, thinking, oh, it's going

to go to $100, it's going to go to $200.

No, when you've got an 80% gain It might

be time to start locking in some profits

instead of just holding it forever until

this happens. It's like falling off a

bloody cliff here. But then things start

to stabilize and catch up. Look, it

started to catch up here with the

all-world ETF with my stable dividend oil

and banking stocks. And actually, yeah, I

do have an 18.82% gain, which is— now

that I think about it, it's better than

the eToro copy trading guy. That one has

an 18.58% gain. Wait,

that means I'm better than the eToro

trading guy who I'm copying who has like

12, 15 years of experience. Haha.

Unfortunately, this is where the laughter

ends and the tears begin because this is

my number one main portfolio. So I started

off with £21,000. This was the money I got

when my dad passed away. And I put it into

this investment account. And as you can

see, I am down £9,000. Jesus Christ.

This is the worst investment decision I've

ever made. This is the most money I've

lost in my entire life. And yeah, it's

pretty depressing to think about it, but

we've got to stay hopeful. Let's analyze

the problem and see what went wrong. So as

you can see, up until this point, I was

just adding money and then I did really

well. Look at this. Straight up like that.

And I nearly got to— well, I did at one

point have 30, nearly £32,000.

I nearly got £12,000 in profits.

Unfortunately, the same thing happened

back in February with this account as

well. NASDAQ corrected about 10%, but then

all my stocks corrected about 40-50%, and

we just fell off a cliff like this. And

you might be thinking, what the hell did

you invest in to lose so much? Well, it's

mainly 100% investing in very speculative

hype stocks like Tesla, BNGO,

Microvision, a bunch of other ones I don't

really remember. To get up to this point,

I just swing traded a bunch of different

things like Macy's, American Airlines.

But then I started trying to focus on

these very— what are they called? Yeah,

hype stocks like BNGO that would go up 20%

in a day. And that really excited me. And

I decided I wanted to make more money much

faster. So I put all the money into

basically 2 stocks, Microvision and

BNGO. BNGO is a gene editing startup

company that doesn't even make any

profits. They've only been operating for

maybe a year or 2. And Microvision has

been operating for decades, or nearly

decades, maybe at least 10 years. And

Microvision makes kind of like augmented

reality LiDAR sensor things. They designed

some kind of augmented reality for

Microsoft. I think the CEO is actually the

guy who was in charge of the Google Glass

project back then. You remember the Google

Glass thing? So it's a very speculative

stock and people were speculating that

their LiDAR technology will be used in a

Tesla electric vehicle car company and

that would make the stock go to the moon.

And I thought, well, if everyone is saying

this, then this must be true. So I put

half the portfolio, which was at the time

about £10,000-£12,000 into Microvision.

Then I put like £15,000 into BNGO. And

then February came, Nasdaq corrected and

all these hype speculative stocks crashed

like 40-50%. And then I crashed all the

way down to here. It was very depressing.

Seeing your portfolio go from $32,000 all

the way down to $8,000 is not very

fun. So around this point, I decided to

panic sell BNGO Microvision and I put

half of it into Bitcoin stocks. Now, at

the time, Elon Musk had just tweeted that

Tesla is going to accept Bitcoin for

payment. And Bitcoin shot up to over

$60,000. And your boy genius investing

Daniel right here decided to put half his

remaining money, which had just plummeted

by over 50% already. I put the remaining

of that into Bitcoin stocks, which then I

think, yeah, Bitcoin crashed because Tesla

then Elon Musk then changed his mind and

said, oh wait, we're not going to accept

Bitcoin anymore. Then China also clamped

down on Bitcoin mining. Crypto crashed and

so did my portfolio. It crashed even more

down to $8,000. And yeah,

I've just been holding the, the Bitcoin

mining stocks up until around here.

And I also held a different— I think I'm

still holding on to BNGO up until around

here. I finally decided to let go of

BNGO, I think around here. And I sold

most of my Bitcoin mining stuff when

crypto bounced back above $40K. So this is

the stock chart for BNGO,

and I just wanted to show you where I

bought into it and what's happened to it

now. So I bought in at around $12,

which was around here. Between $12 and $14

is where I bought most of my BNGO. And as

you can see, it's just— it first crashed,

had a bit of bounce, crashed again. Bit of

bounce, crash again, had a quite a big

bounce here, and I was getting quite

excited here thinking, oh yes, B&J is

going to go straight back up now.

Instead, it just died out like this,

flat, and now it's just kind of stuck

around $5. So it's dropped

by more than 50%, and people say you only

lose your money if you sell, but that's

not really true. You also lose your money

if you keep holding it And the stock never

goes back up? What if BNGO never goes back

up to $12? I could be holding this thing

for 10 years and it might just drop down

to $2 and then go up to $6 and stay in

between $5 and $7. I just kind of lost

hope with BNGO and I sold it all at a

loss. So I locked in the losses because

sometimes I think instead of just holding

on to a loss for years and years and

years, hoping it goes back up just so you

can break even, I think it's better to

just cut your losses and then put it into

something that will be a better trade. So

it seems as though my problem is I kept

buying things when they were going up

really, really high and not buying things

when they were crashing down. I was buying

high and selling low, doing the exact

thing you're not supposed to do. And this

is what I'm doing now. So I've gotten rid

of all the BNGO and all the Bitcoin stuff.

I have a tiny, tiny bit of the Bitcoin

mining stuff still left, but it's very,

very small. So I sold basically everything

and I put it into a couple of stocks. One

of them is Corsair Gaming. So this is the

stock chart for Corsair Gaming.

And I'm using a combination of technical

analysis. You see, I've put up these lines

and fundamentals to decide when to buy a

stock. So I bought Corsair Gaming around

here. Which is, yeah, it's doing quite

well. It's nearly up 10% already. And I

put about £4,000 into Corsair Gaming.

And you see these yellow lines, they're

the Fibonacci retracement lines. I don't

really want to get into it now because it

will take ages to explain what Fibonacci

is. Basically, it just shows you levels

where people are buying and selling. And I

thought, wait, this is a very strong 78.6%

Fibonacci line. Very good chance that

Corsair Gaming bottoms out here and

bounces back up. I also have these trend

lines and moving average lines, and yeah,

it's doing up, it's doing well, 10% up

already on my Corsair trade. This is what

I should have been doing in the beginning,

back in January, February, in the

beginning of this year. I would have

bought Corsair Gaming like here because I

would be thinking, oh my God, look,

Corsair Gaming is going up, it's just

going to keep going up and up and up.

That's not how stocks work. They don't

just keep going up and up and up. They'll

go up, then they'll come down, and then

they might go sideways for a bit, and then

they'll go down, they'll go up, and

they'll go down. Nothing just goes

straight up like that apart from maybe a

few things. Maybe an index fund would do

that as well. And this is another stock

chart of my second biggest holding, and it

is Ford, the car company. And as you can

see, I've put up my— put

up my technical analysis lines. And guess

where I bought Ford at? Yeah, I bought it

around here, around $13, because as you

can see, it's at a Fibonacci level,

61.8% Fibonacci level, very strong level.

And it's also bouncing off of this orange

trend line, which is an ascending trend

line. As you can see, it's bounced 1, 2,

3, 4 times. So it's a pretty, pretty

reliable trendline, I think. So I've got 2

confluences. I've got Fibonacci and

trendline. And I think Ford is a pretty

good company. It's not really overvalued

and they're making electric vehicles as

well now. And yeah, so I bought

Ford around $13. I think it's at $12.80.

So it's actually down a few percent for

think if I invested in this in the

beginning of the year, I would have gotten

all excited looking at this going straight

up and go, and then I'd buy here and then

I would have had like another 50%. It was

at $16 at its highest and now it's at $13.

So I would have had another 40% loss if I

bought back in. I think that was earlier

this year. So really the The whole

point is you don't want to buy after

things have shot up by loads. You want to

buy after it's gone down loads and it's

bouncing off of certain key level lines of

support. And I've got about £4,000 in

Ford, so it's quite a lot of Ford shares,

but I think Ford is— yeah, I think it's a

good company and I bought in at quite a

good price. Okay, next we have my 3rd

biggest holding, which is Amazon. So I've

got a couple thousand in Amazon. And guess

where I bought Amazon at? So I bought

Amazon here. I think it was around $3,300

at the time. And I bought here because

it's bouncing off this yellow trend line.

Look at it bouncing off it. How many times

has it bounced off this yellow trend line?

Very reliable. Plus, it's also at a

Fibonacci level, the 23% Fibonacci.

And yeah, Amazon is up about 5% for me.

So the Amazon trade is going pretty well.

I guess in the beginning of this year, I

might have bought Amazon right at the top

thinking, oh, it's just going to go up and

up more and more. But a lot of these

stocks, what they do is they trade in the

corridor and they kind of just bounce in

between the corridor up and down like a

ping pong ball. I think they call this an

iron corridor or something like that.

What you want to do is buy support lines.

And not buy when it's near a resistance

line because that's very risky. And yeah,

basically the reason why I lost so much

money is because I kept buying at the

resistance lines instead of buying at the

support lines. I was buying at the

resistance lines and then selling at the

support lines. It's so stupid. Why did I

keep doing that? So it's going to take a

long time to, to get my money back because

basically, yeah, I started investing I

started investing when stocks were here,

and then the stocks I picked all came

down, and now they're like down there.

And now I've switched into different

stocks. Now I need to try and get back up

to here so I'm breaking even again. I

don't know how long that's going to take.

It could take a year because the mistakes

I've made were very costly, and it's going

to cost a lot of time. It's going to take

a lot of time if even I can never get back

to breaking even again. Who knows, maybe

the stocks I've picked now are going to

crash more as well. And finally, here is

the page comparing my main portfolio to

the All-World ETF. As you can see,

I am down 48% as of today. Started off

really well, had, um, I think that was

like a 40% gain in the beginning. And then

it just went completely down the toilet.

And here we are today, nearly down by 50%.

So yeah, that's how I lost nearly half of

my dad's inheritance money. Mistakes were

made, lessons were learned. Hopefully I

can recover with my new stocks. We'll see

how it goes.