I earned $3000 from stock lending in January, after making roughly nothing for months

I did a double take when I saw the number on my account, with the payout due today. I’ve apparently earned another $500 in the first half of February.

I’ve gone looking through past posts and gather that this is far from normal.

I had a significant amount in a small list of squeeze-prone penny stocks, some of them excellent choices as it turned out and some of them, let’s say, “very inexpertly timed.” I was in no way thinking about stock lending as part of the calculations, but it seems to have made my mixed bag of choices work out a lot better.

How weird and rare is this? For perspective the total in my account is about $90K.