• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

Upvote/Downvote Thread: What stonks are you YOLOing

@Chris Farley

If you are a novice investor and just want to get started, open up an account at a brokerage company like TD Ameritrade or something.

You basically want to invest in index funds which track the stock market in general. The best one is probably the symbol SPY. Just buy a little each month and forget about it. Check on it in 15 years and you will be happy.

No one knows where the market will go in the short term, but over the long term you have a very high likelihood of having more money than you started with.


After you build a solid investment base, then you can try stock picking etc. Its pretty hard though
 

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