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Girl Talk 21w
Does investing in stocks actually make you money? The most I’d put in is like 5 bucks
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Anonymous 21w

you’re not going to be able to make any meaningful amount of money with $5. i think you genuinely might not understand the point of investing in stocks. you’re supposed to put a few hundred dollars into a diverse portfolio of stocks (or an index fund like the s&p 500) and let that portfolio grow slowly over the course of years or decades and then cash out when you retire to have funds built up to live off of in combination with other retirement investments such as your 401k

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21w

you will be able to buy and trade some penny stocks for cheap but at that point you’re just gambling, if you’re only investing $20 or so you’re putting that money into very small and volatile stocks basically for fun and you’re unlikely to consistently turn any kind of profit doing that. if all you have is $5 to spare you don’t have money to invest period and you should focus on building up your savings in a savings account or cash box rather than wasting it on penny stocks or whatever

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