re: What is a good way to get into the stock market

Don't Borrow Money to Invest.

Had a boss in the mortgage business teach me an invaluable lesson over 10 years ago. I am super inquisitive by nature and was always interesting in testing the limits of our in house guidelines for the mortgage products we offered. I was in his office all the time asking questions and wanting to know about this, that or the other.

I went from a new hire to a nuisance in short order. I was also using him as a crutch and preventing myself from mastering our guidelines on my own much more quickly than just asking him everything.

So he made me bring my guidelines in along with my scenario and prove to him that I researched on my own regarding the subject I was asking about before I could ask my question.

In other words, do your own research before you ask me so YOU can show me you're learning before I help.

I sat in line with a girl I've been taking classes with since January relating to a certification exam we are both took yesterday morning. She's doing it for work. I'm doing it because there are several side hustles I'll use it for to supplement my income for away from the office. I haven't shared my plans with ANYONE else in the class. Simply put none of them showed up, or expressed anything other than an eye-rolling excuse of, "Inhave to do this for work and they're making me take the class," so to me, they don't deserve me telling them about the money that can be made using this certification.

But this little girl is getting it for work but mentioned she has been looking for part time work outside of their company. She's newly divorced, technologically challenged and was wondering if our certification could be used to help accomplish it.

She told me how she'd tried Googling but evidently her skills are limited. So I opened up chapter and verse on exactly what and how. Once we talked, she proved to me she had done the work beforehand and researched to the best of her ability and still had questions.

In short, she'd done her work up front.

In short, you haven't. So I apologize if my creativity or knowledge isn't something I'd prefer to let you use while you stand on my shoulders to make yourself more successful. How about you put in more effort than just making a post on here asking how to make a quick buck?

It sure as hell worked for me, and it worked for my classmate. It might just work for you too if you put a little more effort into it.

My advice would be to get a Robinhood or Sharebuilder account, set aside a few hundred a month and start to DCA into companies you know and believe in. Once you build up a sufficient balance in "safe" holdings you can start taking a bit more risk with your trades. But learn the market before you get burned by the market.

Best plan is skip the stock market and invest directly in cocaine and hookers now.

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Thank you for an actual answer

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While most made light of it, they also gave "actual answers". You are out of your mind if you think you are going to get spending money messing around in the market. You want some side cash, donate some plasma or sperm. That would be my "actual answer".

I just wanted some tips on how to best get into it. I probably won't put any money in until a couple months past and I watch the market and use paper money to see how I would fair. But I feel like most on this board don't really understand what I was asking. I'm not trying to treat the stock market like a casino if and that's what most in this thread seem to think I am

I won't be putting any actual money in for awhile. I wanna get a better understanding of the market before I bet any real money

Wtf. I'm not going to actually put money in until I've got a better understanding of it

How much have you made/lost? What stocks are you high on?

I honestly am amazed...