/biz/ - Business & Finance

no memes but how should i learn about trading, and what to do?
i'm in college right now, and my dad operates a stockbroking company. he doesn't really want to teach me much about it, but i can't help but see that there's a lot of money to be made.
my total experience with trading is that i put like $2000 in eth, and i spent a couple days staring at candlesticks and losing money, and then i just waited a year and i had like $3500.

i just feel a bit clueless. like i can read articles and watch youtube videos but it feels like everyone is trying to sell me something. like, if you knew "the secret", why the fuck would you educate your fellow man instead of profiting like crazy?

in my mind, stocks are like this ephemeral monopoly money and if you do it right you can make millions of bucks for not much work, but i mean my dad is handling portfolios for multi-millionaires and seems to regularly profit, so there must be some sort of trick to it.

i'm not looking to become warren buffet or anything. i've taken a micro and macro economics course in the past semesters. it just seems like i should at least be involved with stocks, because i have money just sitting in bank accounts.