Who here have been investing or going to invest in stocks,etfs, etc

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Keep in mind I did not invest that much the first couple of years being still in school and low income.

Not sure, but it's more than I spend on food and rent. But people should not focus too much dividends, the real money comes from the growth of the values, even if I like dividens.

And it's not always profits, for the last two years, or more excactly since the start of the Ukraine war, I have had a negative return. That is how it is. You can have some great years being a bit lucky to have good or great returns, a some years doing really bad. The last 20 years I have only had 12 profit years, 8 hade a negative return. But of the profit years I had some really good years so the average return is still good.

I’m still in a learning phase .. Some said to invest in reliable companies with history of good dividend eg Canadian banks or Coca Cola. but ur right growth is the most important. Still amazed ur dividend payout cover a lot of your living expenses. Inspiring!

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I’m still in a learning phase .. Some said to invest in reliable companies with history of good dividend eg Canadian banks or Coca Cola. but ur right growth is the most important. Still amazed ur dividend payout cover a lot of your living expenses. Inspiring!

I think a good mix is the best, to mix more safer stock with more riskier stocks that have good chance to bigger gains. I have always prefered stocks in smaller comapanies with higher risk, but the last comple of years I have added more stable stocks also, even if I still mostly have smaller companies with more risk. But I spread out the investments on many different compabies/stocks so I don't take too much risk in one company. But it depends a lot of how much capital you invest, if the invested capital is not that big compared to your salary you can take a bit bigger risk. But when the capital is bigger you don't want to take too much risk and spread it out a bit.

Today I maybe have spread it out a bit too much, it's easy to buy some stocks in a company and get stuck with it when the company does not performe that good, but you still don't want to sell it. But I try to sell away some stocks I don't believe in anymore to cut down the amount of companies I own stocks in, but it's hard.

I acctually don't take out any of the profits /dividends I get, I just reinvest it, so I don't acctually get have any extra money compared to my salary. Two times withdraw money, when I bought a car and when I bought my apartment. Other times I have withdraw money to pay the taxes on the profits. So any dividens just stay on my stock brokerage account and get invested again.

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I think a good mix is the best, to mix more safer stock with more riskier stocks that have good chance to bigger gains. I have always prefered stocks in smaller comapanies with higher risk, but the last comple of years I have added more stable stocks also, even if I still mostly have smaller companies with more risk. But I spread out the investments on many different compabies/stocks so I don't take too much risk in one company. But it depends a lot of how much capital you invest, if the invested capital is not that big compared to your salary you can take a bit bigger risk. But when the capital is bigger you don't want to take too much risk and spread it out a bit.

Today I maybe have spread it out a bit too much, it's easy to buy some stocks in a company and get stuck with it when the company does not performe that good, but you still don't want to sell it. But I try to sell away some stocks I don't believe in anymore to cut down the amount of companies I own stocks in, but it's hard.

I acctually don't take out any of the profits /dividends I get, I just reinvest it, so I don't acctually get have any extra money compared to my salary. Two times withdraw money, when I bought a car and when I bought my apartment. Other times I have withdraw money to pay the taxes on the profits. So any dividens just stay on my stock brokerage account and get invested again.

Yeah I try to diversify and re-invest to compound.

I feel in order to invest in smaller riskier companies you need good knowledge into business economy and how the company works and what their future market is likely to look like which takes a lot of time.

For now I think my strategy is to invest in stable companies that I understand when I get a bit more knowledge I’ll diversify into more risk taking.

I wanted to invest in the stock market years ago, but I have since lost interest in it.

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The best time to invest was yesterday.the second best time is today

No thanks. I'm not going to invest in the stock market in my entire life.

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i had a bunch of shares of nvdia. i bought 3 more today. im really excited what this 10x1 post split will do. doesn't really change anything cept that maybe more enticing now that the price will be reduced and can shoot this badboy up. im over here crunching some numbers and im getting excited

I would avoid have too much in that stock, feels a bit overvalued at this point, the risk/award ratio does not feel that good. Not saying it will go down, but hard to see it go up much more in the near 1-2 years.

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I would avoid have too much in that stock, feels a bit overvalued at this point, the risk/award ratio does not feel that good. Not saying it will go down, but hard to see it go up much more in the near 1-2 years.

It is pretty crazy if Nvidia grow like 10% more, it is bigger than Microsoft which is the world biggest company.

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ahead of the competition for a good while even 5 years i would say. this ai thing is gonna be crazy. tesla be getting more nvdia chips for x xAi fsd etc

Sure, but they will have much bigger competion soon, I doubt they will be able to have these margins in the future.

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ahead of the competition for a good while even 5 years i would say. this ai thing is gonna be crazy. tesla be getting more nvdia chips for x xAi fsd etc

Nvidia surpassed Microsoft today, now it is the biggest company in the world