Can someone help me start investing into the stock market?

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Buy a target date fund.

Eventually, as you start to know what you’re doing, you’ll sell the TDFs and start picking sectors and individual stocks. Advisors are scams.

Eventually, as you start to actually know what you’re doing, you’ll buy back the TDFs and consider getting an advisor.

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VTI and VXUS

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Short

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Read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." It will vaccinate you against doing anything too stupid.

TL;DR: Invest in low cost index funds / target date funds and don't bother with individual stocks/sectoral bets unless it's just for fun and a small part of your portfolio.

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Sure, send your money to my account, and I'll invest it for you

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Really? You sound like every other scammer

Read “I will reach you to be rich”

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Bogleheads 3 fund portfolio

Do the Jason Zweig (WSJ Writer for 30 years) philosophy of the 90/10 invest 90% in index/low cost mutual funds and 10% on high risk bets, then if you completely FUBAR the 10% you are 90% of the way to your goals. If you invest the 10% into the next Bitcoin or Tesla you can retire early.

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