#stock blogs

[ruchir-gupta]

Big Returns: Smart Ways to Start Investing in Stocks with Limited Funds

Investing in stocks can seem intimidating, especially when you're just starting out with limited funds. However, it's one of the best ways to grow your money over time and doesn't require as much capital as you may think. With some research, patience, and discipline, investing in the stock market can be an extremely effective strategy to build long-term wealth.

The goal of stock investing is to buy shares of public companies that you expect will increase in value over time. As the price of the stocks rise and you sell them for a profit, you make money. It's important to remember that stock prices fluctuate daily, so you need to take a long-term approach. With compound growth over decades, even small, regular investments can add up to substantial returns.

The key benefits of invest in stocks for beginners with little money include:

- Taking advantage of compound returns and growth potential over many years

- Developing good investing habits such as regular purchases and portfolio maintenance

- Leveraging fractional share investing to own pieces of expensive stocks

- Keeping costs low by using no-fee brokerages and index funds

- Strengthening your finances and net worth for the future

Know More: Stocks Blogs

This guide will walk through the investing basics, like identifying goals, assessing risk tolerance, opening a brokerage account, and placing your first trades. With the right strategy, investing in stocks can be an accessible way to grow your wealth over time, even starting with a small amount of money.

## Determine Your Investing Goals

Before investing any money in the stock market, it's important to determine your investing goals and time horizon. This will help guide your investment decisions.

### Short-Term vs Long-Term Goals

Short-term stock investment goals are things you want to achieve in the next 1-3 years, like saving for a down payment on a house or car. Long-term goals are further out, like retirement planning or saving for your child's college education.

When investing for short-term goals, focus on minimizing risk and preserving your capital. Avoid stocks and invest in safer options like savings accounts, money market funds, CDs, or short-term bonds. The stock market is too volatile for short-term investing.

For long-term goals, you can afford to take on more risk in search of higher returns. Stocks and stock mutual funds are appropriate for time horizons over 5 years. The longer your time frame, the more risk you can handle.

[sopuu]

back to my undertale roots

[my-little-black-heart]

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Weird thing to get so upset about but.. yeah, he is. He literally donates the maximum legal amount he can to far right politicians. I get he made the funny bear and purple man but that for sure counts as evil.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A year in illustration, 2023 edition (part one)

(This is part one; part two is here.)

I am objectively very bad at visual art. I am bad at vision, period – I'm astigmatic, shortsighted, color blind, and often miss visual details others see. I can't even draw a stick-figure. To top things off, I have cataracts in both eyes and my book publishing/touring schedule is so intense that I keep having to reschedule the surgeries. But despite my vast visual deficits, I thoroughly enjoy making collages for this blog.

For many years now – decades – I've been illustrating my blog posts by mixing public domain and Creative Commons art with work that I can make a good fair use case for. As bad as art as I may be, all this practice has paid off. Call it unseemly, but I think I'm turning out some terrific illustrations – not all the time, but often enough.

Last year, I rounded up my best art of the year:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/25/a-year-in-illustration/

And I liked reflecting on the year's art so much, I decided I'd do it again. Be sure to scroll to the bottom for some downloadables – freely usable images that I painstakingly cut up with the lasso tool in The Gimp.

The original AD&D hardcover cover art is seared into my psyche. For several years, there were few images I looked at so closely as these. When Hasbro pulled some world-beatingly sleazy stuff with the Open Gaming License, I knew just how to mod Dave Trampier's 'Eve Of Moloch' from the cover of the Players' Handbook. Thankfully, bigger nerds than me have identified all the fonts in the image, making the remix a doddle.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/12/beg-forgiveness-ask-permission/#whats-a-copyright-exception

Even though I don't keep logs or collect any analytics, I can say with confidence that "Tiktok's Enshittification" was the most popular thing I published on Pluralistic this year. I mixed some public domain Brother's Grimm art, mixed with a classic caricature of Boss Tweed, and some very cheesy royalty-free/open access influencer graphics. One gingerbread cottage social media trap, coming up:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

To illustrate the idea of overcoming walking-the-plank fear (as a metaphor for writing when it feels like you suck) I mixed public domain stock of a plank, a high building and legs, along with a procedurally generated Matrix "code waterfall" and a vertiginous spiral ganked from a Heinz Bunse photo of a German office lobby.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/22/walking-the-plank/

Finding a tasteful way to illustrate a story about Johnson & Johnson losing a court case after it spent a generation tricking women into dusting their vulvas with asbestos-tainted talcum was a challenge. The tulip (featured in many public domain images) was a natural starting point. I mixed it with Jesse Wagstaff's image of a Burning Man dust-storm and Mike Mozart's shelf-shot of a J&J talcum bottle.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/#risible-gambit

"Google's Chatbot Panic" is about Google's long history of being stampeded into doing stupid things because its competitors are doing them. Once it was Yahoo, now it's Bing. Tenniel's Tweedle Dee and Dum were a good starting point. I mixed in one of several Humpty Dumpty editorial cartoon images from 19th century political coverage that I painstakingly cut out with the lasso tool on a long plane-ride. This is one of my favorite Humpties, I just love the little 19th C businessmen trying to keep him from falling! I finished it off with HAL 9000's glowing red eye, my standard 'this is about AI' image, which I got from Cryteria's CC-licensed SVG.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

Though I started writing about Luddites in my January, 2022 Locus column, 2023 was the Year of the Luddite, thanks to Brian Merchant's outstanding Blood In the Machine:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/26/enochs-hammer/#thats-fronkonsteen

When it came time to illustrate "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk," I found a public domain weaver's loft, and put one of Cryteria's HAL9000 eyes in the window. Magpie Killjoy's Steampunk Magazine poster, 'Love the Machine, Hate the Factory,' completed the look.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk/

For the "small, non-profit school" that got used as an excuse to bail out Silicon Valley Bank, I brought back Humpty Dumpty, mixing him with a Hogwartsian castle, a brick wall texture, and an ornate, gilded frame. I love how this one came out. This Humpty was made for the SVB bailout.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/23/small-nonprofit-school/#north-country-school

The RESTRICT Act would have federally banned Tiktok – a proposal that was both technically unworkable and unconstitutional. I found an early 20th century editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam behind a fortress wall that was keeping a downtrodden refugee family out of America. I got rid of most of the family, giving the dad a Tiktok logo head, and I put Cryteria's HAL9000 eyes over each cannonmouth. Three Boss Tweed moneybag-head caricatures, adorned with Big Tech logos, rounded it out.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories

When Flickr took decisive action to purge the copyleft trolls who'd been abusing its platform, I knew I wanted to illustrate this with Lucifer being cast out of heaven, and the very best one of those comes from John Milton, who is conveniently well in the public domain. The Flickr logo suggested a bicolored streaming-light-of-heaven motif that just made it.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija/#pilkunnussija

Old mainframe ads are a great source of stock for a "Computer Says No" image. And Congress being a public building, there are lots of federal (and hence public domain) images of its facade.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/04/cbo-says-no/#wealth-tax

When I wrote about the Clarence Thomas/Harlan Crow bribery scandal, it was easy to find Mr. Kjetil Ree's great image of the Supreme Court building. Thomas being a federal judge, it was easy to find a government photo of his head, but it's impossible to find an image of him in robes at a decent resolution. Luckily, there are tons of other federal judges who've been photographed in their robes! Boss Tweed with the dollar-sign head was a great stand-in for Harlan Crow (no one knows what he looks like anyway). Gilding Thomas's robes was a simple matter of superimposing a gold texture and twiddling with the layers.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas/#harlan-crow

"Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes" is one of my best titles. This is the post where I introduce the idea of "twiddling" as part of the theory of enshittification, and explain how it relates to "reverse centaurs" – people who assist machines, rather than the other way around. Finding a CC licensed modular synth was much harder than I thought, but I found Stephen Drake's image and stitched it into a mandala. Cutting out the horse's head for the reverse centaur was a lot of work (manes are a huuuuge pain in the ass), but I love how his head sits on the public domain high-viz-wearing warehouse worker's body I cut up (thanks, OSHA!). Seeing as this is an horrors-of-automation story, Cryteria's HAL9000 eyes make an appearance.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

Rockefeller's greatest contribution to our culture was inspiring many excellent unflattering caricatures. The IWW's many-fists-turning-into-one-fist image made it easy to have the collective might of workers toppling the original robber-baron.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aiming-at-dollars/#not-men

I link to this post explaining how to make good Mastodon threads at least once a week, so it's a good thing the graphic turned out so well. Close-cropping the threads from a public domain yarn tangle worked out great. Eugen Rochko's Mastodon logo was and is the only Affero-licensed image ever to appear on Pluralistic.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

I spent hours on the sofa one night painstakingly cutting up and reassembling the cover art from a science fiction pulp. I have a folder full of color-corrected, high-rez scans from an 18th century anatomy textbook, and the cross-section head-and-brain is the best of the lot.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

Those old French anatomical drawings are an endless source of delight to me. Take one cross-sectioned noggin, mix in an old PC mainboard, and a vector art illo of a virtuous cycle with some of Cryteria's HAL9000 eyes and you've got a great illustration of Google's brain-worms.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/14/googles-ai-hype-circle/

Ireland's privacy regulator is but a plaything in Big Tech's hand, but it's goddamned hard to find an open-access Garda car. I manually dressed some public domain car art in Garda livery, painstakingly tracing it over the panels. The (public domain) baby's knit cap really hides the seams from replacing the baby's head with HAL9000's eye.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town

Naked-guy-in-a-barrel bankruptcy images feel like something you can find in an old Collier's or Punch, but I came up snake-eyes and ended up frankensteining a naked body into a barrel for the George Washington crest on the Washington State flag. It came out well, but harvesting the body parts from old muscle-beach photos left George with some really big guns. I tried five different pairs of suspenders here before just drawing in black polyhedrons with little grey dots for rivets.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/03/when-the-tide-goes-out/#passive-income

Illustrating Amazon's dominance over the EU coulda been easy – just stick Amazon 'A's in place of the yellow stars that form a ring on the EU flag. So I decided to riff on Plutarch's Alexander, out of lands to conquer. Rama's statue legs were nice and high-rez. I had my choice of public domain ruin images, though it was harder thank expected to find a good Amazon box as a plinth for those broken-off legs.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

God help me, I could not stop playing with this image of a demon-haunted IoT car. All those reflections! The knife sticking out of the steering wheel, the multiple Munsch 'Scream'ers, etc etc. The more I patchked with it, the better it got, though. This one's a banger.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

To depict a "data-driven dictatorship," I ganked elements of heavily beribboned Russian military dress uniforms, replacing the head with HAL9000's eye. I turned the foreground into the crowds from the Nuremberg rallies and filled the sky with Matrix code waterfall.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/#garbage-in-garbage-out-garbage-back-in

The best thing about analogizing DRM to demonic possession is the wealth of medieval artwork to choose from . This one comes from the 11th century 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros.' I mixed in the shiny red Tesla (working those reflections!), and a Tesla charger to make my point.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

Yet more dividends from those old French anatomical plates: a flayed skull, a detached jaw, a quack electronic gadget, a Wachowski code waterfall and some HAL 9000 eyes and you've got a truly unsettling image of machine-compelled speech.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai

I had no idea this would work out so well, but daaaamn, crossfading between a Wachowski code waterfall and a motherboard behind a roiling thundercloud is dank af.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/03/there-is-no-cloud/#only-other-peoples-computers

Of all the turkeys-voting-for-Christmas self-owns conservative culture warriors fall for, few can rival the "banning junk fees is woke" hustle. Slap a US-flag Punisher logo on and old-time card imprinter, add a GOP logo to a red credit-card blank, and then throw in a rustic barn countertop and you've got a junk-fee extracter fit for the Cracker Barrel.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/04/owning-the-libs/#swiper-no-swiping

Putting the Verizon logo on the Hinderberg was an obvious gambit (even if I did have to mess with the flames a lot), but the cutout of Paul Marcarelli as the 'can you hear me now?' guy, desaturated and contrast-matched, made it sing.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/10/smartest-guys-in-the-room/#can-you-hear-me-now

Note to self: Tux the Penguin is really easy to source in free/open formats! He looks great with HAL9000 eyes.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

Rockwell's self-portrait image is a classic; that made it a natural for a HAL9000-style remix about AI art. I put a bunch of time into chopping and remixing Rockwell's signature to give it that AI look, and added as many fingers as would fit on each hand.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/20/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain/

(Images: Heinz Bunse, West Midlands Police, Christopher Sessums, CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Mozart, Jesse Wagstaff, Stephen Drake, Steve Jurvetson, syvwlch, Doc Searls, https://www.flickr.com/photos/mosaic36/14231376315, Chatham House, CC BY 2.0; Cryteria, CC BY 3.0; Mr. Kjetil Ree, Trevor Parscal, Rama, “Soldiers of Russia” Cultural Center, Russian Airborne Troops Press Service, CC BY-SA 3.0; Raimond Spekking, CC BY 4.0; Drahtlos, CC BY-SA 4.0; Eugen Rochko, Affero; modified)

[ruchir-gupta]

Everything you should know about Stock Market basics

Invеsting in thе stοck markеt can bе an intimidating prοspеct, еspеcially fοr bеginnеrs with limitеd funds. Hοwеvеr, with thе right knοwlеdgе and approach, it's еntirеly pοssiblе tο start invеsting in stοcks еvеn with littlе mοnеy. This cοmprеhеnsivе guidе will prοvidе yοu with thе еssеntial infοrmatiοn οn hοw tο invеst in stοck markеt for bеginnеr, hοw tο dеtеrminе what stοcks tο buy, and thе bеst οnlinе stοck trading cοursеs fοr bеginnеrs.

Stοck Markеt Basics

Bеfοrе diving intο thе wοrld οf stοck invеsting, it's crucial tο undеrstand thе basic cοncеpts. Stοcks rеprеsеnt οwnеrship in a cοmpany and arе tradеd οn stοck еxchangеs. Thе stοck markеt is a platfοrm whеrе buyеrs and sеllеrs tradе sharеs οf publicly listеd cοmpaniеs. As a bеginnеr, familiarizing yοursеlf with thеsе fundamеntal principlеs will lay a sοlid fοundatiοn fοr yοur invеstmеnt jοurnеy.

Hοw tο Invеst in Stοcks fοr Bеginnеrs with Littlе Mοnеy

Invеsting in stοcks can bе a grеat way tο grοw yοur wеalth οvеr timе. Еvеn if yοu havе limitеd funds, thеrе arе stratеgiеs yοu can usе tο gеt startеd. In this blοg pοst, wе’ll еxplοrе hοw bеginnеrs can invеst in stοcks with littlе mοnеy.

1. Start Small

Whеn yοu’rе just starting οut, it’s еssеntial tο bеgin with a small invеstmеnt. Cοnsidеr οpеning a brοkеragе accοunt with a lοw minimum dеpοsit rеquirеmеnt. Lοοk fοr platfοrms that οffеr fractiοnal sharеs, allοwing yοu tο buy a pοrtiοn οf a stοck rathеr than a whοlе sharе.

2. Еducatе Yοursеlf

Bеfοrе invеsting, takе thе timе tο lеarn abοut thе stοck markеt. Undеrstand basic cοncеpts likе stοck pricеs, dividеnds, and markеt indicеs. Rеad bοοks, takе οnlinе cοursеs, and fοllοw financial nеws tο stay infοrmеd.

3. Divеrsify Yοur Pοrtfοliο

Divеrsificatiοn is kеy tο managing risk. Instеad οf putting all yοur mοnеy intο a singlе stοck, cοnsidеr invеsting in a mix οf diffеrеnt cοmpaniеs and industriеs. Еxchangе-tradеd funds (ЕTFs) can bе an еxcеllеnt way tο achiеvе divеrsificatiοn with a small invеstmеnt.

Hοw tο Invеst in Stοck Markеt fοr Bеginnеrs

1. Chοοsе a Rеliablе Brοkеragе

Sеlеcting thе right brοkеragе is crucial. Lοοk fοr οnе that οffеrs lοw fееs, a usеr-friеndly intеrfacе, and еducatiοnal rеsοurcеs. Sοmе pοpular οptiοns fοr bеginnеrs includе Rοbinhοοd, Wеbull, and Fidеlity.

2. Sеt Clеar Gοals

Dеfinе yοur invеstmеnt gοals. Arе yοu saving fοr rеtirеmеnt, a dοwn paymеnt οn a hοusе, οr a drеam vacatiοn? Knοwing yοur οbjеctivеs will hеlp yοu makе infοrmеd dеcisiοns.

3. Rеsеarch Stοcks

Lеarn hοw tο analyzе stοcks. Lοοk at financial statеmеnts, cοmpany pеrfοrmancе, and industry trеnds. Cοnsidеr invеsting in cοmpaniеs with strοng fundamеntals and grοwth pοtеntial.

Hοw tο Knοw What Stοcks tο Buy fοr Bеginnеrs

1. Fundamеntal Analysis

Fundamеntal analysis invοlvеs еvaluating a cοmpany’s financial hеalth. Lοοk at mеtrics likе pricе-tο-еarnings ratiο (P/Е), еarnings pеr sharе (ЕPS), and dеbt-tο-еquity ratiο. Invеst in cοmpaniеs with sοlid fundamеntals.

2. Tеchnical Analysis

Tеchnical analysis fοcusеs οn stοck pricе pattеrns and trеnds. Usе tοοls likе mοving avеragеs, candlеstick charts, and rеlativе strеngth indеx (RSI) tο makе infοrmеd dеcisiοns.

3. Lοng-Tеrm vs. Shοrt-Tеrm

Dеcidе whеthеr yοu’rе a lοng-tеrm οr shοrt-tеrm invеstοr. Lοng-tеrm invеstοrs hοld stοcks fοr yеars, whilе shοrt-tеrm tradеrs aim fοr quick prοfits. Your strategy will influence the stοcks you buy.

Bеst Οnlinе Stοck Trading Cοursеs fοr Bеginnеrs

1. Invеstοpеdia Acadеmy

Invеstοpеdia οffеrs cοmprеhеnsivе οnlinе cοursеs οn invеsting and trading. Thеir bеginnеr-friеndly cοursеs cοvеr tοpics likе stοck markеt basics, tеchnical analysis, and οptiοns trading.

2. Udеmy

Udеmy hοsts variοus stοck trading cοursеs taught by industry еxpеrts. Lοοk fοr cοursеs that fit yοur lеvеl οf еxpеriеncе and budgеt.

3. Cοursеra

Cοursеra partnеrs with tοp univеrsitiеs tο prοvidе οnlinе cοursеs. Еxplοrе thеir financе and invеstmеnt cοursеs tο еnhancе yοur knοwlеdgе.

Rеmеmbеr that invеsting always carriеs risks, and past pеrfοrmancе is nοt indicativе οf future results. Start small, еducatе yοursеlf, and bе patiеnt. Happy invеsting!

Cοnclusiοn

Invеsting in stοcks fοr bеginnеrs with littlе mοnеy is achiеvablе with thе right approach and knοwlеdgе. By sеtting clеar invеstmеnt gοals, lеvеraging cοst-еffеctivе invеstmеnt stratеgiеs, and gaining insights intο stοck sеlеctiοn, bеginnеrs can еmbark οn thеir invеstmеnt jοurnеy with cοnfidеncе. Additiοnally, еxplοring rеputablе οnlinе stοck trading cοursеs tailοrеd fοr bеginnеrs can furthеr еnhancе yοur undеrstanding οf thе stοck markеt. Rеmеmbеr, patiеncе, rеsеarch, and cοntinuοus lеarning arе kеy еlеmеnts in yοur jοurnеy tο bеcοming a succеssful stοck invеstοr.

Invеsting in thе stοck markеt is a lοng-tеrm еndеavοr, and whilе thеrе arе risks invοlvеd, infοrmеd dеcisiοn-making and pеrsеvеrancе can pavе thе way fοr financial grοwth and wеalth accumulatiοn, еvеn with limitеd initial capital. Happy invеsting!

[tickledemon]

They do say less is more, sometimes being slow and methodical results in even more excruciatingly torturous tickling. Her long nails are employed expertly upon her helpless victim's trapped soles to elicit such maddeningly ticklish sensations that even she couldn't believe how loudly her lee was screaming and laughing.

[my-little-black-heart]

[cedarspiced]

I'm centrine, facing eviction and currently residing in a tent in Rafah with my children due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Your support means the world to us, and any donation to help us secure a stable living situation would be truly appreciated. Thank you for considering, and we will be eternally grateful for your assistance.

the fact that you're willing to take advantage of a literal genocide to make a quick buck off of kind people is fucking disgusting. i hope you learn that making money off of human suffering is atrocious and change your ways. fuck you.

[nipuni]

OHHHH my god I just got my latest GibsonGirlDress order and it’s a dream!!! this set is my new favourite 😭 look at it!! 

[smolnchubby]

[radiantarray]

this is such a reach but ive spent over an hour frantically searching so... if you own a zosan doujin called Morning by the artist Makina in the dawn dj circle... please rb this and lmk...

the cover looks like this

[luigiheritageposts]

SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT THIS BLOG AGAIN

[my-little-black-heart]

[artseniccatnip]

Here's my page illustration for the @wandersongzine !

It was an amazing honor to direct the zine and I am so so thankful to all the contributors and to everyone who supported us while we made this zine a reality <3

I just did a general piece with these two cause I love them. If you look close you can notice the overseer symbols make up the background of the image !!