Hello everyone, I am Kasanje-카산제.
I just wanted to give an update on my current portfolios and generally where I am with my varied investments. Gains and Losses and how I am planning on investing in this new year of the black tiger.
First, though, I should offer some background information for context. I am currently living essentially rent-free in a family home owned by a relative.
I try to live simply and keep my expenses low. I resigned from my retail job of 11+ years in 2020 and have been unemployed since.
I decided to go back to college last year and am currently enrolled full-time at a local community college.
The FAFSA, plus other financial aid, more than covered my tuition needs and left me with a sizeable chunk of change left over.
I know it has been some time since I last posted anything about #investing, but I had some good news today, so I will get right into it.
I use five different brokerage apps to manage my portfolios.
On Webull, I have all of my speculative stocks, including picks from Green Energy, Hotels, Space, IPOs, Electric Cars, and DOGE/SHIB.
This account started out with around $3,000 back in 2019, and currently, it sits at a value of $1,884.
It was mostly downhill until COVID-19 hit, and then I started to crawl my way back up.
Still, though I am looking at everything I hold being RED.
On Sofi, I have two dividend-paying stocks: Credit Suisse Silver (SLVO) and Orchid Island (ORC).
The rest of the portfolio includes SPACs that I thought had potential and a few Meme stocks, including Genius Brands International (GNUS) and Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT).
I’ve had the account since July 2019 and am down 42% unfortunately. Last year, I liquidated my HSA account from work and tossed the lot into Sofi, which put me at around $25k account value.
That number has dropped, and I now sit around $15k, which has been somewhat painful. I have earned around $1,990 in dividends, though.
My Charles Schwab brokerage includes funding from a home business mining the cryptocurrency Litecoin (LTC).
Sadly, I had to stop mining in 2020 and eventually shut down in 2021. I have an SBA loan from disaster relief financing that I am currently paying off using the dividends from Schwab. (Schwab won’t let you take screenshots as a security precaution.)
I have an account with Firstrade, which holds all of my OTC market stock.
I have small investments in ClickStream (CLIS), Farmmi (FAMI), Hyper Solar (HYSR), Envirotech Vehicles (EVTV), and Unrivaled Brands (UNRV).
These are all long-term plays, and I don’t check in on them all that often.
The last one is Robinhood.
I had some Green Energy stocks and Cannabis stuff in here for a long time, and they really didn’t fare well.
I also did crypto for a bit and failed. It is very RED in this portfolio. I think back in November 2021, I heard about Renaissance Technologies and the dividend stocks that were included in their portfolio.
That got me inspired, and I made a Watchlist on Webull that included all of those stocks.
I have started closing my GREEN positions at Robinhood and moving the funds into the Renaissance Dividend list.
Robinhood started with $1,935 in 2017 and is currently UP 3.32%, but used to be much higher.
For my future plans around investing, I recently threw the bulk of my Schwab cash into Retail Value (RVI), which is paying out a special dividend tomorrow of $3.27 per share.
I was able to buy 780 shares and am expecting a return of $2,550.50 from that, which should be enough to clear the SBA loan in full.
I will continue to chase dividends with the Schwab account. I have also been playing around with new YouTube and Instagram accounts to explore other topics I am interested in.
The Game Girls Gallery is one of the more popular pages that gets a lot of traffic, and so I made YouTube/Instagram pages for it.
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