[backtoswdev15]

I don't do day trading as I don't have the personality for it. And I think it would have been difficult to be successful over a longer period because of the fees.

My investment style is value investing, primarily in the nano- and microcap space (i.e., companies with a market capitalization of less than $300 million).

Active investing is something you can easily start doing on the side: to find your personal style, and, probably most important, to experience losses and the effect it has on you. And of course to figure out whether it is really something you want to do, because I think people often have a wrong idea of what it means to do investing for a living. At least in my case, it primarily consisted of reading. Absolutely unsexy.