My own journey for the duration of this thread has basically gone from 13 year-old trying a sip of champagne at one summer wedding to upperclassman regularly hitting Aggieville five nights a week.
Would love to hear more, post more about this
Yes, tell us the chum1 bildungsroman.
2013ish: had one share of Krispy Kreme for the hell of it (and then later completely forgot about it and lost track of it)
2016ish-2018ish: experimented with buying stocks here and there just to see what would happen:
I picked up a little of this stock like a year ago in an attempt to buy low. Here's what it's done since.
EGLTQ
EGALET CORP -97.87%
2018ish-2019ish: read Flash Boys, was completely fascinated; read lots more on quants, hft, algo trading
2020: tested and developed quant like trading strategy using historical market data
Late 2020-present: testing strategy with live data, real money; have dozens of open orders at basically any given time