Hit £80k in stocks at 21. Sharing what got me here and where I'm probably wrong
Been investing since late 2023, started with basically nothing and just crossed £80k the other day. Wanted to post this less as a brag and more because I've genuinely learned a lot from posts like this on here, so figured I'd add mine.
Contribute a decent chunk every month and just keep buying, honestly not that exciting a strategy. Had some really good runs on AMD, SoFi and Palantir which did a lot of the heavy lifting, but I've also had some proper duds that took a while to admit were duds rather than "just needs time."
Try to actually think through why I'm buying something rather than just chasing hype, though I'll be the first to say I'm still not great at knowing when to actually sell and take profit versus getting greedy holding out for a bigger number.
Not looking for pats on the back, more just curious if anyone else here started young and has thoughts on what they'd do differently looking back.