>>23611641>nobody ever taught me about investingImagine if you and your brother Achamed started a kebab stand together. You write up 10 pieces of paper that represent a 10% ownership of your kebab stand and each take half. When you divvy up your profits you pay 10% for each share after you're done buying a bigger broiler, new skewers, or whatever you need to make the business run better.
Now your cousin Achamed wants to return to Algeria so he can either give one share to each of his 5 sons, sell them to your neighbor Mumbuntu,, or to you or whomever will offer him a good price. Whomever he sells them to is now owner of that percent of the kebab stand and will share in the value of the company and the profits, they can sell their "share" of ownership vote that percentage in how the business is run, or just leave it to their children or whatever.
It's like that but with very big kebab stands and millions of people owning very tiny "shares".
One rather notable strategy for investing is to buy a piece of a company that makes things that people use every day. For example, pretty good odds that governments are going to want to have armies in the next few years, so buying a piece of a company that makes tanks, jets, and bombs is probably a solid bet.
Or if you're too retarded even for that they have what's called "index" which is a basket of just the best performing companies across the board that are weighed and rotated in and out constantly based on performance. The S&P index is probably the best known and historically averages over 9% return.
