How did you get into the stock market?

My dad was really interested in the markets and started teaching me about it when I was about 14.

I don’t want to work forever. It’s the easiest way of investing capital.

After earning a Master’s in history I was working in the North Dakota oil fields with my dad and making some good cash.

I read this board furiously then opened a Roth that February. This was now 7 years ago.

In 2014 I opened an Acorns account, and 2015 a Robinhood. I started investing in AUPH in 2017.

Working a job right of college with per diem. Was making so much money after maxing out 401k and savings, I needed to find something else. Started with mutual funds, then stocks.

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My parents never bought a stock in their lives

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Same here. They started with zero, never made more than probably $50-75k each at the end of their careers, if that, mother retired at 50, sent three kids to college, never inherited shite, and they have net worth north of a million+ because they are very tight with a buck and ... put it all in CDs.

I put the first $5,000 I saved in Fidelity Blue Chip Growth, and it’s now worth over $70,000, without me adding a penny since. My lord, what my parents could have made if they put even 25% of their savings in an index fund.

My father taught me some things when I was a kid, I’d always watch him do research and he’d let me make picks. I became a stock broker after college but it didn’t work out due to some unfortunate circumstances.

There was a required economics class in high school that everyone had to take to graduate. Part of the class covered stocks, and we set up a portfolio. Everyday in class we would go over the newspapers to see how our stocks did the day before. A few years later, I had a neighbor who was heavily invested in stocks. I learned a lot from him. Over the past couple years I've learned more on my own.

I've always been in it but since covid I've taken a more hands on approach instead of passive investing, since I had more free time.

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My dad was really interested in the markets and started teaching me about it when I was about 14.

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Same. My dad would get me personal finance books for Christmas every year starting in 8th grade.

I was kinda always interested in it. Never really read book or really knew what to do. Used to just bring extra cash to a guy my parents used. I got a business minor in college to help boost my gpa. Finance was one of the classes required. I became more intrigued. I kept just putting money into the same account with my parents FA, but I began asking more questions.

After graduation I got a real job which came with 401k, hsa, and more dress cash since I still live like a poor college student.

I started a RobingHood account got out of that quick. They suck. Then a few months later the corona and the market crashed. And I opened an account through Fidelity and began trading there. It was less risky when the market was at the bottom just assumed most things would go up atleast halfway back to preforms numbers. It was more long term hold anyway.

I recently have begun to actually become interested and am considering doing a lot more learning and potentially a masters in finance eventually.