She was torn between returning back to school online for the 2020-21 school year, or turning her focus to supporting her family and learning about the stock market.Ĭrum decided to take the latter option, and it paid off in more ways than one.Įventually, she even decided to quit her waitressing job because she was making more money day-trading and posting videos on TikTok.īy the end of 2020, she had expanded her portfolio to include other companies, most notably, the famous meme stocks AMC Entertainment and GameStop. Crum used the same logic of buying stocks beaten down by the pandemic - these two stocks were so shorted and cheap that they had almost nowhere else to go but up. And as she was learning, she continued to buy into the market when she could. She studied markets incessantly, watched YouTube videos before bed and listened to audiobooks while working to further hone in on her day trading prowess. As online school wrapped up for the 2019-20 school year, Crum turned the stock market into her new lecture hall.
