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My Experience Investing in Stocks

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  The previous blog I wrote was about my internship with Clever Harvey's JuniorMBA programme where I chose to learn about finance and the different things that come under that. That course introduced me to aspects of finance that I didn't even know existed. Not only that, after I was done with the course I started investing in a few stocks myself. Today, I am sharing my experience with you as a 17 year old who enjoys studying the stock market and investing in stocks. Let me start by telling you a few things I have learnt. Investments in itself is an umbrella term. Investments include fixed deposits, initial public offerings, mutual funds and -the topic we are going to cover today- stocks. There are so many more things that come under the term "investments" but I am going to write about the one that interests me the most. Stocks are a portion of the company that is sold to the public. Anyone with proper documentation is qualified to buy or invest their money in stocks ...