It's very true about making money on volatility. Hate to say this but Covid years were my most profitable years too. What do you want? Bad things make the market drop the most and then the steady climb afterwards is what makes the bull market. Perhaps this is why they start a war when the economy is going bad? And imo, nothing has really changed. It's just that now the financial market has gotten bigger with more participants from the retail side so the oscillation in value has also gotten bigger. You have more people making the moves.