/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>20900806
>Is there any realistic way to compound beyond ETFs? Individual stocks can blow up in your face out of nowhere, see Intel, Boeing, Wells Fargo, etc. You pay in for years and then once bad CEO kills you.
this is why you can't just buy and hold individual companies, you have to research them regularly and stay up to date on their earnings and sector and such. And you don't let one individual company make up a large portion of your portfolio (you can make that gamble while you're young though I guess, if you're okay with the real possibility of it blowing up your portfolio).

>>20901403
Then do it with your Roth IRA, double that 6k in 5 years, and then take out your original 6k to play around with.

I'm not sure what you think you can do that you can't do inside a Roth IRA.