$500 vs $1000 vs $2000

I'm just curious. For all three options if you were to invest it how would you guys do it. How risky would you guys play it when investing the three amounts? Where would you guys invest in? What specific stocks stand out to you? All in all, just curious in here different inputs!

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At $500 and $1000, I'd put some money in SQQQ or PSQ. In actuality a while ago I bought far out-the-money put options on the ONEQ that are doing well, but if I hadn't, I'd be buying PSQ. Thanks transitory inflation, ubiquitous recession indicators, and moronically high earnings estimates.

Also would put money in actually good tech stocks. Both NFLX and GOOGL are in the Nasdaq 100, but Tesla, Apple, and Starbucks are going to do a great job of dragging that index down no matter how well those two do. While Netflix was vastly overvalued in the past, it's now been vastly oversold. Google is just a super-solid company generating great cash flow that's been oversold.

With $2000, depending on my level of risk elsewhere, I'll dabble in 5-6 month put options with on SPAC listed trash like WeWork, Energy Vault, and Nikola. Made a lot of money on this in the past (as in 50%+ return in 2-3 weeks) but would never risk more than 5% of my money on all my put options combined

 

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