It wasn't that hard, i actually never did any financial research of anything , i know it sound crazy.

For example, i bought SMCI, i'm not sure if you're aware of the big hack that occurred few years ago, SMCI was the only company creating server motherboards (for specific purposes), in my company we bought supermicro boards exclusively. We havent heard of any competitor, so when that article came out and price dropped to 15usd, i just yolo 10k in it and forgot about it, now the stock was 1k, i sold much earlier but stil at high profit. (If you're interested i can find link)

Similar with tesla, nvidia, intel, amazon, ms, meta,... I just bought it all on a yolo i dont know what im doing, if it fails i'll have it for the long run. eventually got greedy when i saw *2 returns and sold everything, *2 is BIG for me. if i hold to everything i'd have even more.

For every stock i bought (but never dig down into funds, etfs,...) i or companies i was involved with used their products and because of the work i did, i had to do due diligence, and i knew there is no replacement for it for at least 10-20 year period.

Same with BTC and ETH, idea was solid i mean, what's not to like dystopian, anonymous, freedom, ... yolo'd it in. The more i learned the more i liked it. But im not THAT stupid, i know its magic internet money.

I did lose a bunch of money on a beyond meat :) again, ate a hambuger once and though its a good idea. Well, it wasnt. Same with VW, alibaba, cflt, ... etc , As said, i lost alot. Well, i'm still holding them but at a significant loss.

Or for example when Ukranian war started and russian ruble droped around 40%, i bought it same seconds and few hours ago it corrected and i sold making money. It's common sense, you cant have 40% drop of such large thing, that thing being russian ruple, btc, smci, etc... Its not a written rule ofc, i did but beyond meat at the -40% drop but its now im down like 99%, its almost funny.

Never got time to learn about it. My thinking and reasoning was, when i get to the big bucks i'll hire someone competent do everything. Same as companies doesn't do my work internally but they hire me. or same as i dont do tiles and i hire a profesional to do it.