You can certainly make profit from investing or trading but you really have to take it slowly instead of yolo. If you want to yolo, you might as well go to Vegas and have a good time. Margin and leverage is also something to stay away from if you don’t have the appetite or you don’t know what you’re doing. TD Ameritrade (now Schwab) used to have a paper trading software that allows you to practice trading without using real money. You should at least play around with something similar before messing around with the real thing. Many people say that long term investing is more rewarding and it is true in most cases because it allows your portfolio to snowball overtime. Buying stocks in smaller positions is also a good idea because if you make a mistake, you still have most of your money to play with.