I Did Something Potentially Stupid With $2,000 of My Money
Sometimes it’s okay to let fear of missing out get the best of you
This article is less about the specifics of what I did and more about why I did it.
The move I made goes against pretty much everything I write about speculating with your investments.
In fact, I don’t invest my money at all. Reason being, I’m just not very good at it.
I quickly get impatient and start feeling cash insecure so I sell prematurely, either before whatever I was holding made its move or in a way that thwarts the powerful effects of compounding.
Or, more frustratingly, I have a feeling about something, but I don’t buy it — out of fear of being wrong — and I watch it fly.
So just over a week ago, I bought some Shiba inu coin.
I did the same with Dogecoin: