Hello Mooers! Welcome back.
There are many reason(s) that Mooers start doing trading, and continue to do so, again and again, as follows:
R01: To build a financial safety net for financial protection.
R02: To retire earlier without the need to depend on employer for a living.
R03: Opportunity to earn more money to cover own and/or family expenses.
R04: Joining relatives and friends who had successful trading experience.
R05: The lure of big winning and quick profits in trading! Apes Together, STRONG!
R06: Too bored with life and need a challenging real-life game to play with.
R07: To become the next Jesse Livermore, Paul Tudor Jones, Simon Cawkwel, Warren Buffet, and Steven Cohen.
R08: Want to gamble by trading, as life is short and fear of missing out (FOMO).
R09: Born in a poor (and sad) family with debts such as medical bills, plus, parent are not well educated and have to work two jobs to make ends meet.
R10: To earn more money to help the poor and needy, and donate to care-for-animals organisations.
R11: Loves to try new things and $FUTU.US$ make trading faster, easier and cheaper, and very important: $FUTU.US$ have wonderful rewards (e.g. free stocks, stock coupons, and MooMoo points to redeem nice gifts!)
R12: Transfer an addiction (e.g. sports lotteries, horse lotteries) to trading.
Well, for me, to own part of a company and watch it grow together with me, and helping me making my dreams into reality, is the reason to start trading.
How about you? Is there any reason(s) above that applies to you? Please feel free to tell us in the comment field below.
Now, let's vote which are the ones you trade in.
Mega-cap stocks
(Market-cap of $200 billion or greater)
Examples:
Apple ( $AAPL.US$ ) 2.42T
Alphabet ( $GOOG.US$ ) 1.89T
Amazon ( $AMZN.US$ ) 1.75T
Facebook ( $Meta Platforms.US$ ) 1.03T
Tesla ( $TSLA.US$ ) 751.91B
Alibaba ( $BABA.US$ ) 433.88B
Adobe ( $ADBE.US$ ) 312.84B
Netflix ( $NFLX.US$ ) 260.84B
Salesforce ( $CRM.US$ ) 255.06B
Pfizer ( $PFE.US$ ) 246.08B
Oracle Corp ( $ORCL.US$ ) 236.55B
Advanced Micro Devices ( $AMD.US$ ) 126.00B
Big-cap stocks
(Market-cap of $10 billion to $200 billion)
Examples:
Moderna ( $MRNA.US$ ) 173.59B
BioNTech ( $BNTX.US$ ) 87.11B
Activision Blizzard ( $ATVI.US$ ) 61.87B
Align Technology ( $ALGN.US$ ) 56.84B
Palantir Technologies ( $PLTR.US$ ) 56.07B
Electonic Arts Inc ( $EA.US$ ) 38.10B
Robinhood Markets ( $HOOD.US$ ) 36.25B
Nokia Oyj ( $NOK.US$ ) 31.22B
AMC Entertainment ( $AMC.US$ ) 22.69B
Novavax ( $NVAX.US$ ) 17.69B
GameStop ( $GME.US$ ) 15.68B
Futu ( $FUTU.US$ ) 14.02B
Guardant Health Inc ( $GH.US$ ) 13.38B
SoFi ( $SOFI.US$ ) 11.99B
Cleveland-Cliffs ( $CLF.US$ ) 10.92B
Mid-cap stocks
(Market-cap of $2 billion to $10 billion)
Examples:
Sportradar Group ( $SRAD.US$ ) 7.99B
BlackBerry ( $BB.US$ ) 5.68B
ContextLogic ( $WISH.US$ ) 4.11B
Pershing Square Tontine ( $PSTH.US$ ) 3.94B
Clover Health Investments ( $CLOV.US$ ) 3.56B
Corsair Gaming ( $CRSR.US$ ) 2.72B
Clean Energy Fuels ( $CLNE.US$ ) 1.80B
Small-cap stocks
(Market-cap of $300 million to $2 billion)
Examples:
Canoo ( $GOEV.US$ ) 1.62B
Sundial Growers ( $SNDL.US$ ) 1.49B
Nano X Imaging ( $NNOX.US$ ) 1.16B
Naked Brand Group ( $Cenntro Electric.US$ ) 532.61M
Others
Please write down, in the comment field, anything that you have trade in. It can be Micro-cap stocks, Nano-cap stocks, ETFs, Cryptocurrencies, Forex and even Commodities.
Some examples of Micro-cap stocks (Market-cap of $50 million to $300 million):
Yiren Digital ( $YRD.US$ ) 272.95M
Vaalco Energy ( $EGY.US$ ) 152.32M
Some examples of Nano-cap stocks (Market-cap of $50 million and smaller):
Hudson Global ( $HSON.US$ ) 43.63M
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable ( $APWC.US$ ) 42.01M
ION Geophysical ( $ION Geophysical.US$ ) 43.27M
Harbor Custom Development ( $HCDI.US$ ) 37.99M
Forward Industries ( $FORD.US$ ) 22.67M
Some examples of ETFs can be:
ARKK ( $ARKK.US$ )
ARKF ( $ARKF.US$ )
ARKQ ( $ARKQ.US$ )
ARKW ( $ARKW.US$ )
ARKG ( $ARKG.US$ )
ARKX ( $ARKX.US$ )
TECL ( $TECL.US$ )
FNGU ( $MicroSectors FANG+ Index 3X Leveraged ETN.US$ )
TQQQ ( $TQQQ.US$ )
Some examples of Cryptocurrencies:
BTC ( $BTC.CC$ )
ETH ( $ETH.CC$ )
DOGE ( $DOGE.CC$ )
ZIL ( $ZIL.CC$ )
BNB ( $BNB.CC$ )
ADA ( $ADA.CC$ )
UNI ( $UNI.CC$ )
OMG ( $OMG.CC$ )
Some examples of Forex:
EUR/USD ( $EURUSD.FX$ )
GBP/USD ( $GBPUSD.FX$ )
SGD/USD ( $SGDUSD.FX$ )
AUD/USD ( $AUDUSD.FX$ )
Some examples of Commodities:
Crude Oil
Coffee
Gold
Silver
Corn
That's all and see you all soon. and don't forget to like to show your support. Thank you very much.
Apes to the moon to eat mooncakes!

$TSLA.US$ trading at 990-1000 during opening hours.
Will go lower during this week. This week will be a crucial week for the stock $TSLA.US$, but its fundamentals is the strongest amongst all other EV or ICE manufacturers.
If you are for long term, buy now.
If you are for short term, wait for a few more days for the wedge trend to break up or break down.

$.DJI.US$ $.SPX.US$ It will be interesting to see how this plays out.  You would assume the younger folks will eventually need money. 
I’m quite a bit older.  I found that I could put up with toxic work environments assuming I got paid enough.  I was literally checking the days to an early retirement.  I finally hit 55 years old, realized I didn’t like a marginal tax rate in excess of 50 percent, still didn’t like the lack of work life balance, and I had hit my net worth target to retire.  If work had been easier or taxes lower, maybe I would have kept working another year or two and padded the savings.
So I understand the sentiment.  However, it seemed to me that I was going to have to work 30 or so years once I graduated from college before I could retire.  I decided to just get it done.