Investing in stocks means buying shares of ownership in a publicly traded company

With your $10,000, you can buy stocks from companies. Investing in stocks means buying shares of ownership in a publicly traded company. You can invest in stocks via a brokerage account (Robinhood, Ally, Think or Swim, Charles Schwab, and a lot more). You have the option to invest in individual company stocks, mutual funds, ETF’s ( exchange traded funds) . To keep it simple you will invest in individual stocks for this class project.