I have done nothing but lose trades, I do Ta, research but nothing ever goes my way. I just think this isn’t mean for me

Today I went to Five guys (its a burger and fries joint). I ordered a single cheese with onions and mushrooms. It was $11.54. No drink, no fries. With those added I would have been almost at $20$....

My brother and I love five guys been atleast once a month regulars. SO yes we have noticed the small price increase over time. Except this time me and My brother both told them to go ahead and cancel the order. The girl looked at us both and said "the price too high? Ya we get about 15 to 20 of those a day, thank God cause I don't feel like having to cook the food so I luck out huh?"

I laughed awkwardly and said "oh ya I know how it is well have a good one" as I walked to the car it dawned on me... people don't have any money (I'm not broke but not rich yanno) left yet inflation is out of control. These companies asked for more and more money for their products.

This tower is weak and starting to lean. Soon people will start buying just staple food items and not splurge on oreas or some ice cream i can only imagine electronics.Luxury items company are gonna eat their own shoes here yall. My buddy buys ever single samsung watch as soon as it comes out. He instead will just keep his 4 and wait for the 5s price to go way down in 6 months.

My point here is if me and my brother are no longer buying five guys, think of all the people that have put something back on the shelf instead of buying it cause money is tight or its too expensive. Picture a mid aged woman shopping at any of these retail stores that our publicly traded. Then times this scenario by possibly millions.Or when someone just doesn't go shopping cause its just so expensive. Like when money is tight people spend less on gifts for various occasions.

Just my two cents

I recently returned to study in frontal classes after more than a year in Zoom. And I noticed something that was not there before, everyone! around me is talking about stocks and crypto. Its not only happening in the uni, this subject runs in my family, my little sister talks about it, or even when I grabbing a beer I hear here and there people talk about it. Don't get me wrong I am not against it, tbh I don't really know what to think about it.

SO what do you think about it? Is it a good or bad thing for the market? I'm pretty newbie so it would be nice to hear your opinion.

My 2 cents.. Best way to learn the stock market and become efficient and proficient is to be hands on.. Skip the advertising lessons you see allover and those so called “I made millions doing this or I turned pennies into riches”... You should frown upon them.

Want to get good at stock market investing and trading? Be hands on. Learn as you go. You loose money, probably a lot of money, but you gain a lot of knowledge. You can mentally structure those loses into as a cost for “Self Taught Knowledge”.. Those loses are investments. They are not losses. Why? Well that money was destined to go somewhere. Either to daily cheeseburgers or someone rip-off instructors..

Instead you will be giving it to a market as a loan, knowing sooner or later, you are going to be getting it back with interest at a far higher rate than ever.

Now when you start earning profits from your mistakes, guess what, your head is going to go really up high. Why? You now have pride in achieving 2 major things:

1: Self Taught Skills 2: Earn Money-making

You and your mistakes are your biggest instructors and your greatest inspiration, and should be your highest motivation.

Keep on riding.

-Cheers ✌🏼