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Best methods to teach your teenager about investing and stock trading in particular
Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:21 pm
Context: Teenage son about to start university in the Fall who is expressing high interest and showing some aptitude. Is eager to learn stock trading in particular. However, his concept of “stock trading” is day trading.
Thinking basics re:
Time value of money
Stocks, Bonds, Cash
Risk / Return / Diversification
Trade offs / Optionality
Valuation methods
Wishing for more Benjamin Graham and less Robin Hood thinking, if you will.
Do some learning of concepts, play with some analytics, then apply via practice with real money with some real goals. He and I collaborating together. May add some competitive fun (best performance by year end gets prize).
Welcome your thoughts and steer.
Thinking basics re:
Time value of money
Stocks, Bonds, Cash
Risk / Return / Diversification
Trade offs / Optionality
Valuation methods
Wishing for more Benjamin Graham and less Robin Hood thinking, if you will.
Do some learning of concepts, play with some analytics, then apply via practice with real money with some real goals. He and I collaborating together. May add some competitive fun (best performance by year end gets prize).
Welcome your thoughts and steer.
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Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:31 pm to Artificial Ignorance
Historical averages. In the long game, don't panic. Look at historical averages.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 2:37 pm to Artificial Ignorance
quote:kick him out of the house and send him a link to Zillow housing cost
Best methods to teach your teenager about investing
Teach him how to weld.
He'll get learnt on saving and investing God speed
Posted on 3/20/25 at 3:21 pm to Artificial Ignorance
The importance of compounding interest, sacrifice early, it will pay off later.
Low cost whole market index funds
Low cost whole market index funds
Posted on 3/21/25 at 2:30 am to Artificial Ignorance
- Have him (or you) read Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders at berkshirehathaway.com
Posted on 3/21/25 at 5:43 am to Artificial Ignorance
Teach your son about:
Diamond Hands
Short Attacks
YOLO
Options on leveraged
Mooning
The Wolf of WallStreet
weeklies!
Michael Burry
Starting a Robinhood account
quadwitching excites
Printer going brrrr
The cheap can become cheaper and the dear can become dearer.
Diamond Hands
Short Attacks
YOLO
Options on leveraged
Mooning
The Wolf of WallStreet
weeklies!
Michael Burry
Starting a Robinhood account
quadwitching excites
Printer going brrrr
The cheap can become cheaper and the dear can become dearer.
This post was edited on 3/21/25 at 6:00 am
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:00 am to Artificial Ignorance
Have them get a job and start maxing a Roth and contributing to a brokerage account as much as possible. Then, when they get a ‘real’ job they can start maxing all taxed advantaged accounts and continue dumping as much into Roth and brokerage as possible. Earlier you start the earlier you can retire.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:42 am to Artificial Ignorance
Open a free paper trading account (e.g., Thinkorswim by TD Ameritrade or Webull)—no real cash, real-time data.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:47 am to AaronDeTiger
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Open a free paper trading account (e.g., Thinkorswim by TD Ameritrade or Webull)—no real cash, real-time data.
Waaayyyy back in 5th grade we did something similar. We split up into groups, would read the tickers in the newspapers, buy and sell stocks on paper. It was a lot of fun and has stuck with me all these years later. I wish young kids got the same exposure these days, including aspects of personal finance.
OP, young people are dumb. He needs to learn that consumer investors are typically left holding the short end of the stick. Caution, caution, caution...it's much more about having information than timing.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:53 am to jangalang
quote:Tendies
Teach your son about: Diamond Hands Short Attacks YOLO Options on leveraged Mooning The Wolf of WallStreet weeklies! Michael Burry Starting a Robinhood account quadwitching excites Printer going brrrr The cheap can become cheaper and the dear can become dearer.
Stonks
Paper Hands
BTFD
HODL
Cult Baggies
Apes
Pigs get fed hogs get slaughtered
Posted on 3/21/25 at 10:14 am to Artificial Ignorance
Teach them how to value a company. Lots of info out there on that including some helpful YouTube videos.
Teach them about markets and what the markets are designed to do.
Teach them about market psychology . Group think is subject to irrational behavior.
Teach them about markets and what the markets are designed to do.
Teach them about market psychology . Group think is subject to irrational behavior.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 8:18 am to Artificial Ignorance
I gave both my kids $25k to invest with $25k of their own money. 25% to be invested in companies they knew a lot about and the rest in index funds. My son picked Uber and QQQ. My daughter picked ADBE and SPY. He's beating her by a lot and she is rethinking her choices. They are learning more via competition than any book or TV show would give them.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:03 am to Artificial Ignorance
Don’t teach stock trading.
This post was edited on 3/22/25 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:10 am to Artificial Ignorance
I would start by asking him to read:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:37 am to Artificial Ignorance
Somehow I’d put some hybrid vehicles together combining the shorting of Bitcoin using Iraqi dinars and spot crude prices.
Stay away from buying good companies at reasonable prices and getting rich slowly.
Leverage is you friend. Short stock options and futures using margin.
Stay away from buying good companies at reasonable prices and getting rich slowly.
Leverage is you friend. Short stock options and futures using margin.
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