I scraped together some play money and threw in my old etrade account for shits and grins and have been buying/selling over the past two months. I've doubled the investment as of today. My issue is getting into a good stock that keeps rolling after I hit my target and selling. If I'd have kept it in ZM, Tesla, and AAPL, I'd have tripled my original investment vs. doubling it. I was in and out of the latter two a month before they did the 5 way split. Bird in the hand, though, I guess . . .
I'm back in Apple, Pinterest, and Netlist right now. Apple's new i-phone is coming out tomorrow and historically that stock has taken off after introduction of an upgrade; it's up $6 today. Pinterest because of a partnership with Shopify and COVID; users increased by 40% in 2nd quarter vs prior year. Netlist, the only penny stock I've messed with, won a patent lawsuit against Google is awaiting settlement which is suppose to occur in November. It's trading at ~70 cents/share now; I'm in at .45, 55, and .65 and have read anticipated pps of anywhere from $1 to $20. PLEASE let me see $20. Ha.
I'm not day trading, just watching for stocks that have the potential to make short term runs. I try to get in and out after hopefully making 20%+. I'll probably take the earnings if/when I see them from Pinterest and hold Apple through hopefully a nice run. I'll hold Netlist until the settlement and maybe longer.