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Originally Posted by The Future7
Nice!
About the money. Where does the money you invest come from? Is it like you invest however much you want to invest or is it from your salary or something?
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You'll need a small lump sum to start. You can consider it "seed" money, and grow from there.
I recommend starting with about $1k. Less than that, it almost seems pointless.
For example, you buy a stock, and it goes up 10%. If you had $1k invested, that's 100 bucks, but if you had $400, it's only a gain of $40.
Of course, if you are thinking long term, as in 3+ years, then any amount will be ok. I consistently use my son's money (gift received or whatever) to purchase stocks like IBM, CSCO, or WMT. These stocks probably will never go away, and it will be a good bet they'll be worth more than their current levels. In this scenario, you're "accumulating" long term and any $$ amount will be ok.
For learning the market via trading stocks (not day trading), you'll probably need $1k to start....