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    1. What is your passion? And why?

      If you have more than one passion, try and pick the one you are... Most passionate about! If you can't, then go for it, explain why you have more than one. What is your passion? If it's something...

      If you have more than one passion, try and pick the one you are... Most passionate about!
      If you can't, then go for it, explain why you have more than one.

      • What is your passion? If it's something obscure tell us about it!
      • How did you end up with that passion? What was the inspiration?
      • How long has it been your passion?
      • How do you practice or express it?
      • Sell it to someone reading, why is your passion so great to you?
      23 votes
    2. Looking for advice: How do I find out what stocks to invest into?

      First of all, I am not asking for advice about what to invest in. TLDR: I just want to ask for advice about how to know what to invest into? Background information and/or irrelevant rambling...

      First of all, I am not asking for advice about what to invest in.

      TLDR: I just want to ask for advice about how to know what to invest into?


      Background information and/or irrelevant rambling below:

      I have minimal experience with stocks, having only invested €2500 into a pension account thanks to it being a gift from my father some years ago. Early this year I got taxed about €200 for unrealized gains of my stocks, mainly one of them (RHM.DE) and it takes up a little more than half of the value of the stocks I have. At that point in time when I got taxed it was up almost 100% compared to when I bought it almost two years ago. It has now fallen quite far again and as a result is up less than 10% and my gains are €180 so basically the massive gains (if I had sold at the right time) got cancelled from the taxes. Although to be fair I don't actually know if that's how the tax system works, but I do know I was unlucky to not just sell it off at that peak. But speaking of luck, I am still up like 60% overall thanks to another lucky stock which is up 150% (ENR.DE) compared to when I bought it.

      Again, I have no sense for economics or financials or investing lol, genuinely just lucky??

      The investing I did was based entirely on Merz changing the direction of German defense policy when he got elected where he said his government will heavily invest in defense. Rheinmetall being a German weapons manufacturer, it only made sense (and it paid off for a while) and the Siemens investment I made was just an afterthought in order to not have all my eggs in one basket. I also have other stocks that are up like 60% 75%, 90%, and then get this: a stock I didn't even buy (it was like a split-off of something else, and given to me automatically?) is up over 800% so I still have an overall value of €4000 from a starting point of about €2500 and €1500 gained in less than two years is, of course, and I cannot emphasize this enough, just purely luck lol

      I might as well have gone to a casino.

      Long story short and reason for posting I'm now wondering what to do with that RHM.DE stock. Because it doesn't seem good anymore and maybe the ~€2100 value is better spent somewhere else? But how do I know?

      18 votes