/biz/ - Business & Finance

Hello everyone it's the retard posting in /smg/

Everything is falling to shit around me. Filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy last month, car died last weekend, only have $500 to my name in savings outside of 401k and Roth at work. I can walk to work but God damn it's hot outside.

I can keep saving a meager $500 a month for a down payment for my discharge later when I can get a better loan but I'm thinking why not use the stock market? I've already made a ton of terrible financial decisions in my life why not keep going? But there is always that "maybe" it could work out for me.

I'm going to read the sticky tonight after work but what else should I know?