I pulled profit of $5500 on Bitcoin four years ago after 8 months of a $20,000 investment which got me started. Then bought metals which have increased, one quite a lot lately.
A friend told me in November to buy XRP crypto when it was .58 cents and I thought no I'm not sure I want to go the crypto route anymore because it's so volatile, but when he told me it was up to $3.00 a couple months ago I got interested. His $2000 turned into a nice amount of value if he sold it but he's just gonna hold it.
Two days ago I bought XRP/Ripple at $1.96 and it's up to $2.12. This crypto has utility because it's 1000 times faster and 1000 times cheaper to use than SWIFTCOIN for the space of digital funds transfer and XRP is constantly innovating into new ways to make transactions more efficient and soon ETF's will be made to sell. A bunch of financial experts believe it'll be the next Bitcoin and will be adopted by many banks, ect.
It's one of those things that one could put a 1% investment of your portfolio and it could be worth 10 times that in a year or two, or half as much, but I'm taking the chance.
Eh, look up XRP/RIPPLE because it's got a strong following and is staving off fear sentiment well compared to much of the stock market.
I have no idea what I'm doing but have been pretty fortunate so far. Just the last few months I decided to try to learn more on investing but it's a slow process. Buy low and sell high?!, lol.