How I Invested $2k During the Pandemic!!

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By Miguel Dos Anjos

I invested $2k!! This is during a pandemic if you’re not losing money and keeping what you have; it’s already a good day!! Getting almost 10% profit in a little over a month is a divine blessing!!


How I invested

I invested this whole $2k in stocks!! 80% in four companies!! And the remaining 20% I split into smaller positions into 5 other different companies!!

All these companies are pandemic proof!! So they do well with pandemic or not!! Actually some of them profit from the conditions we are living in today!!

 

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I used an investing platform called M1Finance!! It supports fractional shares!! It was extremely useful!! It allows flexibility because some of these companies, even to get a single share is so expensive!!

I don’t work for M1Finance and sadly they don’t pay me to say this!! I just like and use their platform!! If you’d like to open this same account I use; feel free to use my link!! You can use somebody else’s link or go direct to M1 web page but if you do use my link you get a $10 referral bonus and I get a $10!!


Strategy 

The $2k was not invested in a single shot!! I made different amounts of smaller investments every week or almost every week!! Trying to avoid the peaks, high prices, and jumping in during the dips attempting to buy during periods the prices were cheaper!!

This is called DCA, dollar cost averaging!! It is the opposite of investing huge lump sums of money once and instead buying smaller amounts during a longer period of time!!

I prefer much rather doing this because imagine putting all your eggs in one shot and the next day the news come up: “you have 9 million cases of covid!!” And right away the stocks nose dive down!!

If you had the money great, now you buy it all half price if you’re already all invested now what? Sell the stock investments half price?? I guess at that point, as long as the companies invested in were good, the best course of action is to wait for the market to come back up!!

 

1st position: Alphabet

If you are wondering oohh what this company is about!! I tell you; “you already know”!! Alphabet owns google, the number one searching engine in the world and they also own YouTube, the number 2 searching engine in the world, and they own many other companies!!

 The P/E is at 36, that sounds like a big number to me but when I remember we are talking about Google here!! This company improved our lives and brought information to our finger tips!! Sadly today people believe in their own made up fiction facts instead of fact facts!!

My only regret here is not being able to invest more on it!! The only risk they face is government coming down on them for monopoly complications!! And I hope government don’t hurt Alphabet too much and if they create new laws, these laws improve the economic field but keep my investment safe!!

  

2nd position: Tesla

And position number 2 is Tesla!! Run by Elon Musk!! It is a technology and information company!! It makes electric cars, batteries and harvest the energy from the sun!!

 Fossil fuel is killing our planet!! Global warming is no longer reversible!! All we can do is slow it down!! I would love to save the planet but the fossil fuel industry is too rich and powerful!! It is not a fair fight!! But at the end of the day most of us will not be the ones suffering the most!! The next generation, our children will suffer more!!

Tesla P/E is around 800!! Huge P/E right!! Stay away?! No, the way I see this it is a buy!! Tesla’s been around for 10 years!! I few months back the P/E was negative; which meant the company was not profitable yet!! But that’s how good business are!! They need investment to start!! But Tesla now is profitable!! They make their products in the gigafactory, and now they have 3 full gigafactories up and running!! Nevada, New York and Shanghai and 2 more gigafactories under construction one in Texas and another one in Berlin!! The support for this company is tremendous!! When it started people thought it was a dream but Elon Musk made it a reality!!

 

3rd position: Amazon

And the 3rd position is Amazon!! Amazon didn’t suffer from the pandemic!! It profited!! Everyone loves ordering online!! With social distancing even if you enjoy going grocery shopping now you think twice before doing it!!

Personally I love the convenience of having it delivered to my door in 2 hours and it is cheaper and I even save on gas!!

Amazon P/E is at 116!! Which is expected for a company this famous and this big!! The P/E is good and important evaluation but at the end of the day all that matter is how much more the next person will pay for it!! And I tell you Amazon is not going away!!

 

4th position: Netflix

More than ever we are home netflixing and chilling!! Netflix ruined it for the monopoly cable companies had!!

For a few bucks we have access to great content and entertainment!! While cable charged a few hundred bucks!! That’s why I ditched cable!!

Netflix figured out a way to produce great content at a much more affordable price!! And that is Netflix mote!! Generating good series and content at a more affordable price is Netflix protection just like a castle’s mote that deep water trench around a castle’s that protect it!!

Netflix P/E is at 76!! I wouldn’t buy most companies at a P/E like this, but this is not most companies, this is Netflix we talking about!! Yes we now have Disney+, peacock, and everything so then I thought Netflix was over but I was wrong Netflix is the one consistently coming up with new content!!

 

5th position: Snowflake

And position number 5 is Snowflake!! Snowflake recently went public!! It was my first time buying a new IPO.

Warren Buffett was making a move on this!! And that’s what brought my attention to this company!! We can watch and learn from Buffett but we can’t copy his foot steps exactly!! While my profit on Snowflake it 13%, which don’t get me wrong, right it’s good, it’s a profit!! Buffett’s profit on this was over 100% by day 2!!

Regular people like me and you don’t have enough money to lock in deals big fish like Buffett has!! And we don’t have a huge company or companies on our backs as proof of a track record!!

Snowflake is a new technology company!! This is their time!! They are more relevant today than ever before!!


Remaining 15%

The remaining 15% of the $2k was invested in 4 companies!! About $300!!

Position #6: Berkshire Hathaway!! The company owned by Warren Buffett!! It is a company that holds a few dozens companies including Geico!! Berkshire is also highly invest in Apple!! It’s sitting in lots of cash!! Even though it is not a tech company it is still profitable, and it is making very interesting moves lately thanks to Buffett and his great team!!

 

Position #7: Apple!! Apple is actually my number 1 position in all accounts together!! I love its products!! I rarely or never see somebody trying out apple products and going back to the competitor!! They innovated phones!! I’m all the time on the phone!! But I’m never calling anybody!! A phone is so much more than just a phone now!!

 

Position #8: Virgin Galactic: Virgin Galactic is a spaceflight company that wants to take me and you for a ride into space!! A few years back for me it was a big deal going to six flags and riding those rides!! Virgin Galactic wants to make a space ship that will take regular civilians for a ride into space for a few $100 bucks!!

What can I say?! Space is the last frontier!! We have recently found much more water in the moon!! That can certainly help stablish a permanent colony there!!

 

Position #9: Alibaba: And finally my last and smallest position is the Chinese company Alibaba!!

 

Final Thoughts

$2k was invested!! We have about $116 profit!! That is almost 10% in a little over a month!! At this pace, there are 12 months in a year; we could be looking at 100% yearly growth!! Doubling the investment!!

That would be a dream come true!! But a bit too much!! This is a time where many people are losing money!! Just keeping what we have today in the pandemic is good!! 10% profit in little over a month or 100% in a year!! Holy moly!!

Everything that goes up goes down!! But for the loooong run its usually good!! 

 

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