Well, over the past couple of weeks I’ve been shedding my Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum coins. It was quite a ride. Maybe it will recover, but I can’t risk riding it all the way down. I read the forums on Reddit for Bitcoin, and there’s a whole bunch of “HODL,” “HODL,” “HODL.” For those unfamiliar with the term, it basically means “Hold on for dear life.” It may be an investment technique, and has worked well for long term stock investors, and may work here, but what if it doesn’t? It will be too late when I find out Bitcoin is back down to some really low amount. As far as percent profits, I do have the most in Ethereum. I bought it all at about $10 and watched it shoot up to over $1,000. That got me nervous. Anyway, I may jump back in, but not now. I’m not a market timer.

Last week I decided to open a Robinhood brokerage account. Currently everything must be done through their smartphone app. They offer free stock trades, but will restrict your account if you do too many day trades.

I transferred a “huge” total of $25 into the account. I won’t be using it much. A couple days later an offer appeared in my app that I earned one share of stock for opening the account. They claim there’s a 1 in 100 chance the stock will be something like Apple or Microsoft. With my rotten luck, I got one share of Sprint, that’s worth about $5.