Naive investing question

Sure there are dozens. ETrade, etc. If you are looking to day trade or swing trade I do caution you that you will highly likely lose a good chunk of your money given your lack of experience. It takes years of being actively in the "war zone" to have the discipline to watch your money lose hundreds or thousands every minute and not prematurely sell at a loss. If you are not interested in truly becoming an expert, just invest in long term index funds. And those will beat most experts anyways.

Robinhood

Ok yes, I have a 401k with Wells Fargo. Thanks, ill look into it

If you’re just testing the waters and not talking about a huge amount of money, I think the Robinhood App is a no-brainer. It allows you to trde stocks commission free...A HUGE advantage when you want to make small plays and not have fees kill you.

If interested, here’s a referral link, if used we’ll each get 1 free share of a random stock.
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Not really looking to be an expert, just put up little money and see what I can do with it. No high stakes. Basically see if I can make a little something out of nothing.

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I highly recommend staying small if you want to play around for funsies. It's very common for people to start out that way and get lucky for a while in a bull market and think they can consistently beat Wall Street. Then they jack up their bet size and eventually get crushed. Happens all the time. You will not beat Goldman Sachs with their multibillion dollar investment in robot traders for very long.

If you want to save for retirement then stick with index funds, they really are more reliable.

Are you looking to trade or invest? Big difference.

Pick your direction, study, then paper trade. That would be my advice.