{"id":7675,"date":"2022-11-04T06:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T05:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/how-i-turned-15000-into-1-2m-during-the-pandemic-then-lost-it-all\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T06:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T05:39:24","slug":"how-i-turned-15000-into-1-2m-during-the-pandemic-then-lost-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/how-i-turned-15000-into-1-2m-during-the-pandemic-then-lost-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"How I turned $15,000 into $1.2m during the pandemic \u2013 then lost it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in risky stocks gave me the illusion of control in a time of uncertainty \u2013 until it derailed my entire life<\/p>\n<p>I kept the news in all the way out of the terminal until halfway through the airport parking garage, which was as far as I could hold it. It was the kind of announcement that was too voluminous for the inside of a car, so I blurted it out to my parents in the open air in a half-mumble, half-laugh.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo, umm, I turned $15,000 into $1.2m<\/em><em> in the past year<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/04\/how-i-lost-1m-during-the-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ff72823f47063b01dea057bc3db86e53704776a5\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c8d47f83fe4486bfdd4e834b5d7a5db1\" title=\"How I turned $15,000 into $1.2m during the pandemic \u2013 then lost it all\" \/>Investing in risky stocks gave me the illusion of control in a time of uncertainty \u2013 until it derailed my entire life<br \/>\nI kept the news in all the way out of the terminal until halfway through the airport parking garage, which was as far as I could hold it. It was the kind of announcement that was too voluminous for the inside of a car, so I blurted it out to my parents in the open air in a half-mumble, half-laugh.<br \/>\n\u201cSo, umm, I turned $15,000 into $1.2m in the past year.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in risky stocks gave me the illusion of control in a time of uncertainty \u2013 until it derailed my entire life I kept the news in all the way out of the terminal until halfway through the airport parking garage, which was as far as I could hold it. It was the kind of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/how-i-turned-15000-into-1-2m-during-the-pandemic-then-lost-it-all\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I turned $15,000 into $1.2m during the pandemic \u2013 then lost it all<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}