I lost 25k in my investments due to the covid crash which was made worse by me not pulling my money out of my investments through the bank until mar 23 which worked out to be the worst day of the year to do it. I would have probably almost fully recovered by now just doing nothing. So the lack of control over my money made me want to start doing this, ive actually been interested in it for years but have been too scared. I hopped on the VTIQ train as soon as i got access to my money for direct investing but ended up dropping 5k in the next 2 days. Fortunately that came back up in price a week or so later and i also tried various other stocks but most of them were losses and ERI and the VTIQ recovery brought me back to even for a day. Then i was down 4k again and saw that the GNUS stock i looked at and said ha thats not going anywhere, had basically doubled in price the last week. So basically my goal was to recover my losses at first. Then i started getting hopes of striking it rich but yeah, I am not suited to taking such risks the past 2 weeks have shown me. Even when it was climbing like crazy i was still freaking out. Im gonna take some time away from this and try much smaller short term investments, as it seems i cant even handle a 2 week one.