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Huh, looks like I figured where was the problem with your run.
"Staring at the charts for hours straight" – this mainly. 🧐
How it can be done instead – talk to Jun 2-3 times every day, and she would tell herself there are "anomalies on the stock maket" – only then it's worth checking "stonks.ic", where usually one of the coins is getting either extremely low, or extremely high.
Then also, it's not worth staring right at it 👀, but just re-checking every now and then.
I usually went out for walk, slept for 1-4 hours, or had fun with Jun. 😉
Then re-checked the charts... Sometimes also saving the game if luck was particularly(!) good.
Btw, the chart dynamic is random every time, so it was also possible to re-load as many times as you want, keeping the chart going up and up. 😋
(this is also practically cheating/exploiting, but you don't necessary need to do it – to still have tremendous success with "stonks.ic").
Generally, this approach worked really smooth and casual, and didn't felt like grind, at all.

Heh, on that "buying something actually exciting" – we touched that question on a neighboring topic:
https://itch.io/t/5740024/rich-lifestyle-for-those-who-have-over-10m
I would love to see more ingame options of course...
But, from IRL experience – I know there's nothing really to spend big money on... Even when you have those.
Basically, what you can do when there's far more than enough for own needs...
*Is either starting an organization(any kind, from business to charity), and then paying other people so they could have enough... Which is not without personal risks, and is generally a game for a specific taste(being executive and all – some get high from it).
*Or, the ultimate thing is – going into politics... Which has 1000X more personal risk, because now you're tryin to step on other people with big money, big organizations, big connections, big influence, and FAR bigger experience. Which would likely end with your 💀.
This is where big money are spent, while stereotype of "beautiful life" is prety much a lie – someone invented it to bullshit poor normies. 🧐