15 years old and wants to invest?!?

Question

I'm 15 and have some money in the bank as well as on hand that I want to invest instead of just spend it all on Abercrombie clothes and such. I've wanted to invest for a couple of years now but just didn't know how to get started. I've read many articles and have a basic understanding of the stock market. I went to Fidelity and they said that I should invest 60% in domestic stocks, 10% foreign stocks, 25% bonds, and 5% in short term investments. Now I only have a little over $800 to invest and I was wondering what I could start out doing? I am in this for the long run and do hope to earn enough money to buy real estate in college so I can enter that market. I have the time, responsibility, and the 'brains' to do this. What stocks would you suggest I invest in? I need to build up my money first before I can get bonds. I know I need to diversify. I was thinking of getting some larger companies, like Johnson&Johnson, and some pennie shares. Please offer any tips available!! Thanks!!! =)

Answer 1

I´ve been investing for more than 20 years and trading for almost 14, and I can tell you that if you want to make BIG and FAST profits, I recommend you trading rather than investing, trading can help you to go from rags to rich.

If you are investing, you must have already achieved some degree of financial success, long term stock investing and FOREX can help you to diversify your money and become much richer than you are today.

My experiences as a Nasdaq Market Maker, Head trader of several brokerage firms, and currently as a professional trader and private hedge fund manager, I can suggest you that:

We trade because we want quick, short term profits on a consistent basis. We want to cash flow the market. Milk it like a cow.

Make consistent, small, short term gains rather than trying to hit a home run on every trade. Don't ever forget that.

Don't marry a stock, marry the idea of making money trading stocks. That's the only way to do it.

For me "All stocks are equally worthless”

I don't hold on to any illusion that the stock market will continue to go up and provide a nice retirement for me.

I could care less which way the market goes. It's irrelevant to me if the market goes higher, crashes or moves sideways for the next 50 years. I really could care less. Stocks are just four letters with two prices next to them that I use to make a living trading.

Trade ONLY when you have a clear, easy and identifiable advantage, because without a CLEAR EDGE your odds of success are NO better than a flip of a coin… That´s why so many new traders (and investors) lose money.

Take a look at any daily chart of any index or stock and you'll probably see the most volatility and the biggest opportunity for profit during the first Hour of the stock market's opening.

The popular thinking and conventional wisdom is that you should wait about an hour before you start trading.

But if you do, you'll miss the big, fast moves that stocks make as all the amateurs let their emotions out through their online accounts, usually right after they read some news headline or hear Maria Bartiromo go off about a stock on CNBC.

It's easy to see why trading the open is the market's prime time for profiting from other online traders.

The market's open is very volatile - that is the perfect environment for LARGE, FAST profits.

Learn to trade as a professional Market Maker, not as an emotionally driven amateur trader or investor with few thousand dollars in an account at Etrade.

There isn't any other time during the day or any stock you can invest in, that can make you 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or more points in minutes OTHER than during the first hour the stock market is open, that means: if you are buying or selling short a 1000 shares per transaction, you´ll make $1000,$2000,$3000,$5000 or $7000 Usd "IN MINUTES !!!" not in a day, not in a week, not in a month or in a year, in less than 60 minutes... That's why I love trading the open so much.

I trade only when I have an edge and that means "only the first hour the market is open".

If you are a beginning trader, you can give yourself an unfair advantage in the market trading this way.

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"What is your best advise?

I will say:

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• Not to spend most of your day in front of a computer dealing with complex charts, software or technical analysis.

• Learn how to read the market´s open to make a huge profit just a few minutes after the opening bell.

All this and a lot more…

Good luck and good trading,

John Fontaine

Answer 2

You may want to invest in mutual funds rather than individual stocks.   Take a look at www.vanguard.com and www.troweprice.com  Both are investor friendly (that is they place the interests of investors ahead of their own) and offer no load funds so you are paying no commission.  This is a VERY turbulent time and stock prices are have been and are likely to be very volatile.  Remember, you are buying a piece of any investment so you want to be very careful in your decisions.

Answer 3

MacDonald's

Disney

Answer 4

I started investing at 14, though it was through my dad. I would just take the $800 and invest it one company. Anything less then $5,000 is pretty hard to diversify, and yes I know that diversifying is very important, but from my experience, you would end up with very odd lots. But that's just my opinion. I highly doubt that you will raise enough money to buy real estate unless you have astronomical returns, but never the less you will have a tremendous lead, that will only help you. Good luck.

Answer 5

I would keep your money in the savings account as of now.  Economy is not doing so well.  Study well the tricks of trades. Real estates are not in the hot spot for several years to come.  Because of the currency fluctuations, do some research on currency exchanges.  Foreign Exchange (forex) is a hot commodity. Investors are flocking into this market and strike rich within a year.  Study the basics of forex online.

learncurrencyexchange, easyforex, forex123, and so on.

Answer 6

Chat with your parents, to set up an account to invest in stocks, they will have to open it for you.

Answer 7

when i waz your age i had my mom buy disney stock 4 me... if id had sold it before the market tanked last year i'd have made out like a bandit... as it turns out i didn't but i'm still up to around 1700.00 from my orginal 500.00 investment... i had disney reinvesting all the divended checks they sent me back into buying more disney stock... instead of cashing them... and it was all automatic done buy them...  so if you invest it n leave it for long term you should earn... j&j is good too... good luck!!!