Investing Is For Everyone, Picking Stocks Is Not

Anum Hashim
Blooming Notes
Published in
5 min readOct 27, 2020

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A lot of Investing advice online focuses on the stock market.

Which makes sense. The stock market is an accessible way for everyone to invest in the market.

You can buy one stock or even partial shares in a company. There are a lot of platforms that cater to smaller investors.

However, there are also a large number of investment options available to everyone.

As a beginner investor, even if you have done your homework and decided that investing is the right next move for you and your money. Now you must make a few more decisions. Where exactly in the stock market should you invest? It can get overwhelming!

We often hear about the sexy “investment” opportunities with high upside potential. Options, cryptocurrency, or volatile industries — like technology, marijuana, etc.

These are also stocks that have large downside potential.

Because of the inherently high risk on these stocks, people may choose to sit on the sidelines and forgo potential returns.

In today’s market, there are a lot of opportunities to invest in different securities. These can be done via ETFs, Index Funds or, individual stocks.

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Anum Hashim
Blooming Notes

Finance professional / CPA on a break from corporate life. I write about money, productivity and life as a content creator.