👋🏻The Year that went by!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Before we get started with today’s newsletter, I want to say thank you.

I cannot express how grateful I am to people who stuck around with me throughout 2021 — the year I focused heavily on content creation. And to people who joined along and became an invaluable part of this journey.

I published over 75 videos on Instagram, over 20 in-depth finance videos on YouTube, 7 weekly newsletters and 2 stock market courses on Graphy (so much more to come).

Because of your support in 2021, I’m confident this year to build a finance-focused community that values financial awareness and financial literacy. This is important because there are still so many people who are scared to face the numbers, be it their debt, savings, retirement portfolio, etc. I want to make sure that everyone reading this newsletter and consuming my content isn’t just equipped but excited to face these financial numbers.

In 2022, we’ll not just focus on the stock market/ investing ideas. There are several ways to make money other than that- yield on cryptocurrency, starting a small business or a side hustle, or even improving our productivity to become overall efficient in everything that we do.

So the main focus (at least for the next few months) would be finance, productivity, side hustle and self-improvement.

Also, I’m planning to start a podcast very soon. I have a few ideas and some guests lined up for this endeavor — so keep rocking with me and let’s have some fun this year!

2021 Performance of Popular Indices & Cryptos:

• NIFTY 50: +23%

• Sensex: +22%

• Bank Nifty: +13.5%

• Bitcoin: +59%

• Ethereum: +399%

Going Global:

Elon Musk’s Tesla ended 2021 up +50%, after returning an incredible +750% in 2020. Tesla’s 2020 and 2021 performance caused investors to sprint to other EV names — like Rivian Automotive and Lucid Motors.

Because of this excitement, Rivian Automotive became the first US company to attain a $100 billion market cap without a single dollar in revenue and Lucid Motors was briefly larger than Ford by market cap in November.

Most importantly, Tesla because the 5th company to join “The Trillion-Dollar Market Cap Club” in October.

Keeping this as high-level as possible, we saw NFTs make moves in 2021. From Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale to the launch of an NFT-focused ETF — it’s safe to say NFTs were all the rage last year.

NFT sales volume hit a record $23 billion in 2021.

Despite other tech companies experiencing immense volatility throughout 2021 — Microsoft, Google, and Apple all showed resilience. Big Tech continued to report strong quarterly earnings results — causing the 3 of them to collectively add +$2.2 trillion in market value.

We had a very interesting year.

Crypto crashed and crushed for a major part of the year, stock market showed most of us how volatile the markets are and why it is important to diversify. It is simply impossible to include everything worth talking about — so let’s end this newsletter here.

I’m looking forward to 2022 with you all by my side!

-Jay Desai

See you next week with some more amazing things.

Until then...

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Disclaimer: This is not financial advice or recommendation for any investment. The content is only for educational and informational purposes only.