About twelve years ago, I opened a special brokerage account with the specific purpose of trying different investing techniques for my own education. I spent several years building up the balance with money we didn't need so that if my investing attempts proved to be an utter failure, it wouldn't hurt our financial future.
Early Experiments
I started off pretty simply with ETFs that mimicked specific markets poised to soar. In a nutshell, some of them did really well, some of them didn't. Nothing grand about that particular investing strategy, so I moved on.
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