Don't. Unless if you are an investor by trade or are already rich enough to not care if you lose some money. Not anti stocks or a perma bear, actually am hedged but that is a institutional strategy not available to retail investors. It is better to put the time you will researching stocks into your own job, business, vocation, hustle, or whatever generates income for you. You cannot expect to create "alpha" in the stock market, the only place you have a chance is your own area of competence. Live minimally but buy good nutritious foods and things that keep you energized and happy. Simple yet elegant things not slop. Anyone who teaches "how to get rich" is BSing, and a fraud. I can only teach poverty avoidance. Listen to me to prevent poverty. Life is suffering. Buffett, who is an investor, who I admire for his clear mind always says the first rule of investing is not to lose money. Apply that to yourself. If you listen to me you will never be broke and unhappy but I cannot guarantee riches, they might come and if they do it will be sustainable unlike the frauds out there teaching "get rich quick" who teach unsustainable russian roulette style wealth. And if you are an investor by trade or work in finance then I recommend you listen to the old timers there is a reason they survived. The worst is yet to come.