Probably not, but I’m still going to do it. I started reading “Rich Dad Poor Dad” (I’m still reading it). I’m a 40 something receptionist, in debt, with poor spending habits (please refer to previous blog posts of rampant shopping sprees on Aliexpress and Ebay), I have no savings, and I’m not practical. I always pay my bills on time, my credit is excellent, but I have nothing to show for this admirable credit rating, besides being a financial institutions wet dream of incessant spending, while barely topping the minimum payment.
Wealth Simple has a Trading & Crypto feature (I have no idea what Crypto is, but let’s be real, do I even have any informed idea what trading is – no). I signed up with Wealth Simple, but had difficulty linking my financial institution with the trading feature. I kept trying, doing the same thing over and over again, and it finally worked (what’s that old saying about doing the same thing over again?). I don’t know what the problem was, but I was able to add funds and now I’m waiting for them to clear.
So now I wait. I have a stock picked out (it’s a Canadian company and I’ll tell you what it is when I can actually purchase my first stock. I had initially wanted to purchase a stock for MINISO (that odds and ends store found in malls in Canada), but it wasn’t listed with Wealth Simple. No idea why some stocks aren’t there. I have no idea what any of the stock lingo means. I have a list of books I need to get my hands on this, being one of them.
It’s pretty obvious here I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s gambling. Right now I’m unable to make an informed decision, but being the overly impatient person I am, I’m proceeding. I’ve decided $30 a month is a safe enough amount to royally screw up. Some of you might be yelling at your screen… that I should apply it to my debt, and you’re probably quite right to do so, but this is an experience I want to have. Hopefully I learn a lot and get good at it!
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Oh boy. My husband has stocks. Has for years. He gains. He loses. He gains again. He’s always after me to invest my money (what little I have) and trying to explain stocks and bonds and RSPs and all that. He has a business degree. I have an English degree… my mind doesn’t get the stock game. To me it is gambling, which I never do (I don’t even buy lottery tickets). I wish you luck with this. If it’s something you want to learn, well, learning is always a good thing!
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It’s gambling to me too. I will need all the luck I can get lol. I am looking into online accounting classes with a flexible schedule. I’ve been terrible with money.
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