re: How did you get into the stock market?

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My parents never bought a stock in their lives, so I knew nothing about the market.

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Same here. My grandparents weren’t real interested in it either..

One set of grandparents pretty much lost it all in their 60’s and that had a ripple effect because my dad was in the family business also. Dad recovered and did well until he had a stroke a couple years ago and is now disabled.

The other set of grandparents were/are invested, but ultra conservative. They do own a nice piece of land that will eventually be my moms, and mine and my brothers some day.

I wasn’t taught much at all about stocks and investing coming up and even into early adulthood. So, I’m late to the game. Anyway, at the time Covid hit, I had a few thousand sitting there and when it all tanked I opened a Roth IRA. I’ve got a little bit tied up in the good shite going on on this board and I’m invested in QQQ and AAPL with the rest of it. I figure an advisor would be pushing me to be more diverse, but I’m trying to play a little catch up, so I don’t mind being a little risky.