There is a cool down system if things become too volatile. They halt trading for 15 minutes or shut it down for a day. They mentioned that if S&P500 were to drop 7% they would halt trading for 15 minutes today.
It doesn't take much money to invest in the stock market. Do you consider yourself thrifty? That's the major criteria for becoming an investor. Living below your means and saving. I have been in the working world for ~8 weeks now and already have some investments lol.
It appears a good portion of comments in this thread have been, many of them not obviously bad. HN seems to have developed a contingent of people who downvote anything they disagree with, without explaining why they disagree, and this thread is particularly heavy on them.
des429|10 years ago
randyrand|10 years ago
It doesn't take much money to invest in the stock market. Do you consider yourself thrifty? That's the major criteria for becoming an investor. Living below your means and saving. I have been in the working world for ~8 weeks now and already have some investments lol.
jebblue|10 years ago
photosinensis|10 years ago
qrendel|10 years ago