/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>49429392
Swiss land is a pretty good comparison. That's pretty much Taiwan's geography except add in an ocean buffer. The chinese will have to establish a beachhead port for supplies while the defending air force is bombing their balls off

Is speculating with stocks an acceptable way to make money? I feel that speculators actual prevent real economic growth, since they don't actually understand what's going on, but use their wealth to manipulate markets for the sole purpose of acquiring more money, thus meddling with the natural social Darwinist nature of business.

Also, how much money do you need initially to make any decent income from stock trading? From what I know, you need a solid $50,000 to invest initially in order to avoid paying high commissions, or even just to be accepted in the first place.

When I was seventeen, I though I was going to make a few investments with crypto and become a rich young man working from home with a lamborghini by my mid-20s. I will turn twenty-one in four months, and I'm still a poor neet who can't find a normal job due to severe OCD.

I initially invested $250 in crypto on Coinbase back in 2017, and I was my investment grow all the way past $1100. When I tried to sell my Bitcoin, Coinbase locked me out of my account because I was under eighteen. I tried to make my Dad the owner of the account, but Coinbase couldn't have cared less. By the time I turned eighteen, my investment was only worth somewhere between $500 and $600.

Since I typically only have a few hundred dollars on me at any given moment, I don't want to invest my money in anything big. If I were to invest, say $200 into something, and then see that $200 turn into $250, I would feel very depressed, since I could've made, say, something like $50,000 had I would've invested $200,000. I felt like this back in 2017, too.