Does anyone here invest? I want to get started

[tmacattack33]

I had some fun with sports gambling for the past few years, but have realized that vegas knows more than I possibly can. I came out in the negative.

I put a lot of effort into it, so I now figure that if I put that much effort into learning the stock market and investing, I would have a better chance of actually coming out in the positive.

Anyone into this stuff? (You can also PM me if its too personal or something)

[ISHGoat]

If you really want to make money doing stocks and finances, it wont be a part time gig. You'll need tons of capital and basically make it your day job.

On the other hand, you could just dump your money from your day-job into Index Funds and just collect your $$$ periodically with little work. Look into that. Minimal work for maximum gains. Most mutual funds, hedge funds, etc cannot beat the correctly selected index fund. Even if you blindly select the US Index fund, youll probably beat the average mutual fund return by 2-3% per year and will be charged significantly less management fees, since there is essentially nobody to manage your account but yourself.

Vanguard has options as low as 0.18%, or was it 0.018%. Anyways, it is ridiculously low fees, very little maintenance, and relatively un-volatile compared to the stock market.

[Giaodollo]

If you really want to make money doing stocks and finances, it wont be a part time gig. You'll need tons of capital and basically make it your day job.

On the other hand, you could just dump your money from your day-job into Index Funds and just collect your $$$ periodically with little work. Look into that. Minimal work for maximum gains. Most mutual funds, hedge funds, etc cannot beat the correctly selected index fund. Even if you blindly select the US Index fund, youll probably beat the average mutual fund return by 2-3% per year and will be charged significantly less management fees, since there is essentially nobody to manage your account but yourself.

Vanguard has options as low as 0.18%, or was it 0.018%. Anyways, it is ridiculously low fees, very little maintenance, and relatively un-volatile compared to the stock market.

I just listen to my friend and invest.. Got me a stock that went up 178% from May I believe. Although for the past two months it has stagnated and been going up and down.


But I ain't complaining. That stock made 178% richer and probably selling it next week.

Minimal effort, I have so far only bough the stocks that took 2 minutes and I get notifications every day about how it is doing..

[oarabbus]

If you really want to make money doing stocks and finances, it wont be a part time gig. You'll need tons of capital and basically make it your day job.

On the other hand, you could just dump your money from your day-job into Index Funds and just collect your $$$ periodically with little work. Look into that. Minimal work for maximum gains. Most mutual funds, hedge funds, etc cannot beat the correctly selected index fund. Even if you blindly select the US Index fund, youll probably beat the average mutual fund return by 2-3% per year and will be charged significantly less management fees, since there is essentially nobody to manage your account but yourself.

Vanguard has options as low as 0.18%, or was it 0.018%. Anyways, it is ridiculously low fees, very little maintenance, and relatively un-volatile compared to the stock market.


This. I put money into mutual/index funds, and they have steady but unspectacular growth.

Unless you put a lot of time in it's dangerous otherwise. I invested in fitbit and made some cash on that but it was too volatile for my liking.