Generation X investors are conflicted. They are trying to decide on investing in stock or investing in bitcoin and altcoins.
I have learned my lesson after many years of buying and selling stock from 2008 - 2018. In ten years I only had one profitable year. I lost money 9 out of ten years. By the time I reached year #5 I had a really good grasp on what I was doing. I have learned some really advanced strategies so these last 4-5 years should have been profitable.
However the main reason I could not become profitable is because of having a small amount of cash. When you have a small bank roll of $2000 and your trying to grow its too easy to fall into the trap of wanting to perform advanced trading strategies and using the margin that companies like TD Ameritrade will offer. You can only use the advanced strategies if you use margin, this is basically credit.
If a trader gets into too many margin trades which are very difficult to keep track of he or she can get over extended and get a margin call. Like a perfect storm traders get into situations where they are thin on cash and they are trying to make up for losses so they put on more trades to make up for the losses then they get overextended. Then the market pulls back 5 or 10% then the trader has a "margin call". A margin call means that the brokerage firm your working with can at any time sell any of the assets your holding to make up for the negative balance you now hold.
This happened to me many times, and was a very stressfull process. I have news for anyone reading this. If you have a small bankroll $1000 -$10,000 that you want to invest and grow, crypto currency in my opinion is the way to go.
This is not financial advice, but I have a very strong gut feeling. You have neo which pays you gas if you hold it. You have pos coins that pay you coins and rewards if you certain types like reddcoin, hyperstake and many others. On some exchange platforms you can loan your coins and receive interest. Mining has become popular and this is another investing avenue when bitcoin starts to rise.
Last but not least, on the steemit platform you can write quality content articles and get paid. You can comment on othere peoples posts and get paid. Delegating steem power can earn steem members a consistent daily payout. Members can create their own bots and become a service that gets paid to upvote. There are probably 10 or more ways to make money on the steemit platform alone.
I like my odds investing in the crypto world, better than investing in stock. The following article has more specific infomation on the comparison between stocks and crypto.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/2017-market-performance-crypto-vs-stocks
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