Should I invest in stocks?

Should I invest in stocks?
Or is that just what the Jews want me to think?

Does it just serve the elite?

If you can do it intelligently... It takes a bit of talent and you'll lose more money than gain to begin with. FYI the poor almost never invest and will even try to convince you their car is an investment. That in my opinion is telling.

index funds
bonds
real estate if you can afford it
and gold and silver just in case

invest in metals and fertiliser

Share market is a glorified casino
If you have to ask, you obviously have no idea what you're doing
And those who have no idea what they're doing lose money in the casino

What about blue chip shares?

And no, the ultimate tendency of casinos is loss, the odds are always started in the casinos favour. You can find price to earning ratio statistics or average return, etc, unless you're from Melbourne or Sydney stocks have better return than property. That being said, property requires a minimum buy in of at least 10,000 and a stable job, you can start investing in stocks with about 500 although you probably should start with you have about 3000 saved up so you can diversify easier.

Again, if you have the talent, you can get between 10% to 20% return a year, but that's pretty impressive. My grandfather turned 300,000 into 8 million over a few decades, he had talent.

ETFs are great for the lazy.

Find market stability statistics and buy a bunch of gold ETFs when uncertainty is high. That's just an easy 5% return a year, assured.

Again, this requires talent. It's basically a red pill test.

You must have a taste for screwing people over

My car is an investment. It has appreciated 25% in two years.

Be prepared for modest returns 3-5% averaged out over 10 years or so. You're investing at a time when the stock market has been pumped full of money by the fed. Allocate at least 10% of your total portfolio to cash, 10% to precious metals. Index ETF's are a good thing

Day trading and swing trading stocks is basically gambling

Please come back to Australia, I miss you.

Also, you've spent so much time on your cars, so much money, you're always reselling parts/cars for cheaper, you'll even end up paying for a removalist to remove the completely worthless cars.

You're making a loss, and no one is going to give a shit about "classic cars," not 10 years from now, not 50 years from now. Even if, if you were pragmatic enough to actually tally your profit and loss, you'd realise how much you're losing.

>but muh enjoyment
Totally worth the thousands out of pocket, eh? Smoke more weed instead.

Giving money to a business so it can hire more people is objectively not screwing anyone. You are dumb. The world would objectively be a better place if everyone invested instead of stored it in banks.

Invest in energy. Peabody and Arch.

The way I see it, maintenance costs of an older car cancels out depreciation costs of a new car.

It's a BMW coupe so let's do the math.

Bought the car for 30k and have spent 15k on maintenance including manual conversion. On my salary I could easily have afforded a car worth 150k brand new but I'd eat at least 15k depreciation within the same time frame plus a 150k car is a run around soccer mom car = boring.

I've had people approach me at gas stations offering to buy the car for 35k last year (that was before manual gearbox). All in all I figure I'll at least make my investment back. It's the same for other rare cars and rare shit like MTG cards - you'll make money back on it if you know the market and most times can get returns above usual investment tools.

Your math is shocking, you're down 10k. All that effort, you know how hard it was to set up a share trading account?

>rare shit
In the end, collectors are frugal and always looking for a deal. I know collectors, they'll tell you it's worth one price and then say they'll only buy it for another, always half the original price. You just need to watch some antique/collector reality TV shows to see how true what I'm saying is.

Stocks and shares are objective. The price is right there in the open, it's effected by very real things and with a bit of talent these things are very predictable. You can start making a return immediately, as opposed to 50 years down the line for that BMW to actually become rare.

BTW, BMWs are horribly pretentious cars, extremely overpriced new. You're literally buying a brand. You'd probably make even more money scamming dirty bogan Commodore officiardos.

Buy gold miners. Regardless whether brexit happens it's going up. The prices are super deflated, and gold demand is going higher and higher because of east mandate to create a gold backed yuan and ruble.

I'd be down more than 10k with a new car.

And yes pretentious but it's easier to fix a BMW yourself than other makes. They're just so well damn well documented.

>Giving money to a business so it can hire more people . . .
I see you know nothing about the equity market

It seems like most people just tell me to go for index funds. Should I bother with anything else?

> getting financial advise from Sup Forums

yea plz don't bother investing the pathetic 3000 dollars you have in your savings account

You'd have SAVED the most money if you just accepted that the two most expensive things are cars and women, then kept the same for as long as possible, driving it like a bitch.

Surely there's a midpoint between a car that requires work (probably will always require work) and one that's brand new, especially a BMW.

Just making an arbitrary example, it's hard to argue more jobs are a bad thing unless you're a massive corporatist shill who secretly wants unemployment rates as high as possible to drive wages down.

>that's right, just leave it in the bank
Found the shill.

Hate to say it, but that's your best bet along with blue chip shares. Dump the money in and forget about it.

But real men invest in real companies and just bear the pain of it constantly going up and down.

What companies have the rockinist stock holder meetings?

I dunno bro, do your own research, I only invest in Australian companies because I don't have an international traders account, they're more expensive.

Go to they're always memeing stocks. Last I cared enough to visit that half dead bored they were memeing tesla still.

>Just making an arbitrary example, it's hard to argue more jobs are a bad thing unless you're a massive corporatist shill who secretly wants unemployment rates as high as possible to drive wages down.
No, I'm saying the money you buy stocks with doesn't go to the corporation; it goes to the person you bought them from. Unless you own an investment bank that does IPOs, that is.