First things first. Why would you need to join a community, forum, or chat group?

Here’s why:

• To learn the basics, if you are a newbie

• Get online help with difficulties and concepts

• Save money by learning from others’ mistakes

• Reap psychological benefits (reminder of how much you don’t know/keep your ego in check/how experienced traders deal with losses/etc)

• Avail instant information on topics or stocks of interest to you

• Benefit from a 360-degree viewpoint – get all the pros-and-cons instantly

• Get a feel for market sentiment

• Generate fresh ideas for trading or investing

• Make money through copy-paste. Yes, some social trading networks can actually help you make money by hitching your trades to a successful trader

• Enjoy friendship and camaraderie, because trading and investing can sometimes get lonely

• Develop your own reputation, and then monetize it

• Best of all…the above benefits usually come for free!

If you haven’t been paying attention or live under a rock then you probably noticed how the first week of 2020 has significantly increases world wide geopolitical tensions and the increase of a chance of World War 3 occurring in 2020. With Iran responding to the US by sending multiple ballistic missiles on US bases located in Iraq there is a strong chance that US will respond with more military action.

For a large part of 2021, there was a big rally in growth stocks. Dozens of stocks delivered multi-fold returns