Guides
Walkthroughs with actual steps — what to click, what to ask, what it costs.
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Making Your First Trade
What actually happens between clicking buy and owning a share - order types, fills, settlement, and the mistakes that cost real money.
- Check the market is actually open
- Look up the ticker, not the company name
- Choose limit over market on anything you are unsure about
- + 3 more steps
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Opening Your First Brokerage Account
How a US teenager actually gets an investing account, who has to co-sign it, and what to look for before you click anything.
- Know which account type you're allowed to open
- Pick the adult who will be custodian
- Compare brokers on fees and minimums, not app design
- + 2 more steps
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Building Your First Portfolio
How to actually size and split a starter portfolio as a teen, including the asset-allocation decisions that matter and the ones that don't.
- Decide what money is genuinely investable
- Pick your time horizon honestly
- Start with one broad fund, not seven stocks
- + 3 more steps