There’s a lot of people in this last quarter of the year on how they can start investing in the stock market. I always tell them to read up and I’ll get back to them. If there’s a market truism that you need to remember, it’s this:

"The market is not your mother. It consists of tough men and women who look for ways to take money away from you instead of pouring milk into your mouth." 

Alexander Elder

You must not expect the market to give you money without working hard for it. In most cases, the worst thing that you can do to yourself is to make yourself some money without any knowledge, then proceed to throw your entire savings into it only to lose that initial profit plus a lot more. Without ill intent, I always wish stock market newbies to have small failures initially, if ......