I was sitting on my balcony with a laptop, running math and thinking about emergency funds. My goal was to put my emergency fund into a high yield savings account (HYSA). I had hours blocked off in my head before I even opened a browser. In my mind, this meant researching banks first that had…
I was already investing $400 a month and it wasn’t enough. But I wanted to do more. The problem was I couldn’t find where the extra money would come from. I had a budget and I was following it. I still couldn’t figure out where the money was going. I sat with my bank statements…
Early morning, my phone rang. A call from a mechanic talking about my car’s transmission. Once I heard “transmission” I already pictured a big payment. I mostly skipped the explanation until he reached the number, $2,500. I had $4,500 in my savings account, two months of expenses. I figured that was enough to start with….
I got a free random share from the brokerage account I signed up for. I had no idea what the company was or whether it was worth anything. After trial and error with binary options and Hashflare (Read full story here) I figured the right tool for me was a brokerage account. I researched platforms …
Imagine spending two evenings building a spreadsheet projecting two years of returns at roughly 100% a month, knowing exactly how much you will earn, even planning how to spend those returns. It’s all gone now. How? Once I started to do binary options I also started to read about cryptocurrency and blockchain. The cryptocurrency boom…
Second half of 2017. I had no money to risk and no clear idea where to start. A platform with free coins felt like a safe place to start. Lose fake money, learn real lessons. After watching a few YouTube videos explaining binary options patterns, basic strategies, and how candlestick charts worked – I started…
Can you imagine someone betting binary options on the USD to be strong right after a very bad unemployment report at the end of the year? Then jumps into cryptocurrency and tries to predict ETH BTC trends? That was me and at that point it didn’t feel like a shameful thing, but how can you…