Getting started

Take out a Fielity account. There is SO MUCH info in there. I started out (20 years ago) conservatively with what was then the default 60 stocks/40 bonds. Then I got a little braver and began looking at index funds and also learned about the downside of mutual funds, the management fees and that not many of them beat index funds. Later, I got ballsy and bought stocks. Google, Amazon and Baidu were my first buys and I learned about bumpy roads with those investments.

I'm still learning and recently changed my entire portfolio philosophy to small buys, no more big bets, and a mix of solid dividends and bets on The Future (Rocketlab, genetics research).

The major point is, anything you want to know about a stock, an etf or an index fund is available at Fidelity.

Best of luck. Being in the market is the way to go but as they say (ad infinitum) don't gamble more than you can afford to lose.

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