How to start off in the stock market? Basically I'm a complete

Open robinhood account

Put money in pso every month

Reinvest dividends

Save up additional 3k

Open vanguard roth ira account

Max it every year

>>1268117
>Read a financial newspaper daily.
>Learn basic economics
>Practice by pretending at first

>>1268133
suggestions for reading materials

>>1268117
>>1268141
www.investopedia.com
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page

those two are more than enough.

>>1268133
>practice by pretending

That'd never work you won't learn the risk side

Vanguard fund or ETFs. About two thirds doemstic and a third international.

Half your age in fixed income type deal.

Anything you don't drop in those for the long term is funny money that you can piss away all you want.

>>1268127
do dividends are calculated by the number of shares? like they give 1 dollar per shares you have?

>>1268117
Be careful of what you read. Some of it is designed to mislead, while some is just useless.
And prepare to be bent over if you use Robin Hood. The list of shit you can't do with that app goes on and on. Those who shill it seem to forget that having real time quotes is kind of important when you're buying thousands of shares, even if it is just dog shit penny stocks.

>>1268258
I'm using robinhood and I already notice some of the shitty aspects of it. What do you reccomend instead for a beginner?

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>>1268117
Unless you have information the market hasn't absorbed yet just buy shares of the S&P 500 and be happy with your 10% (or whatever the market rate of return is)

>>1268293
It really depends on your capital, and what direction and risk you're pursuing.
How much?
Investing or Trading?
Gain expected?

I don't think you can ,as a newb, learn enough soon enough to beat the brokers desu. Just do what this guy said >>1268351 otherwise its gambling or Identical in the feels to it.