Personal perspective: I took the money I've save toward home and put them into stocks (large semiconductors), made 35% of realized gains and had 89%/11% gain/lo

Personal perspective: I took the money I've save toward home and put them into stocks (large semiconductors), made 35% of realized gains and had 89%/11% gain/loss in 3 months. It is absolutely exhausting and nerve racking experience. One day you wake up and see that your account dropped by -$15k, because feds posted numbers that market didn't like. Traded only stocks, using very conservative margin, kept gains in stocks. Getting a large sum in few months had the opposite effect on me of what I was expecting: I became more irritated and depressed. What you see on wallstreetbets are survivors/extremely lucky individuals. Even those who posted large gains, often digging themselves from previous large losses. It is a gamble.