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Pelosi vs Buffett Two Different Portfolios
When I first started investing, I thought most successful people’s portfolios would look kind of the same. But then I saw charts online of Nancy Pelosi’s reported stock holdings and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. Looking at them side by side, they could not be more different. Pelosi’s portfolio is filled with big tech and growth names: To me,…
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From Losses to Gains: Watching My Portfolio Change
Red Numbers to Green Numbers Back when Trump’s tariffs first hit, my account was in the red. I was upset and honestly tried not to check it too often because every time I looked, it felt worse. Now it feels completely different. I keep opening the app because I want to see how much it…
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The Most Trusted Brokerage Companies (and Which Ones Are Custodial-Friendly)
When I looked at the biggest and most trusted brokers, I realized not all of them are easy for students to use. The trick is finding out which ones allow custodial accounts or even special teen accounts. Here’s what I found. 1. Fidelity Investments Huge and stable, with nearly six trillion dollars in assets. The best part…
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What is Compounding?
9th grade finally ended, and summer break started right away. But instead of relaxing, I jumped straight into summer school session 1 at my high school. Right after that, I spent a month at the University of Chicago YSP program, which was intense but amazing. On top of that, I started studying for the ACT and SAT for the very…
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Can You Start with Just Ten Dollars?
When I first started reading about investing, I thought you needed thousands of dollars to buy stocks. That felt impossible for me as a student. But then I heard about something called fractional shares, and it completely changed my perspective. Fractional shares mean you can buy just a piece of a stock instead of the whole…
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Why Do Stock Prices Move?
After learning about stocks, ETFs, and the S&P 500, I had a new question in mind. Why do stock prices move? When I check my virtual portfolio, some prices are higher than yesterday. Others are lower. But what’s behind all that movement? I thought there might be a simple answer, like a company doing well…
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When Tariffs Hit My Portfolio
After February’s first tariffs, I thought maybe the market had already adjusted. But on April 2, 2025, President Trump called it “Liberation Day.” After February’s first tariffs, I thought maybe the market had already adjusted. But on April 2, 2025, something much bigger hit – President Trump called it “Liberation Day.” On that day, he announced a 10%…
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Trump’s First Tariff Strike
When I started reading about the stock market, I thought politics was just background noise. But on February 1, 2025, politics jumped right into the center of the market. That was the day President Trump announced the first round of tariffs. He put a 25% tariff on most goods from Canada and Mexico, and a…
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Not All S&P 500 ETFs Are the Same
After writing about the S&P 500, I thought I had it figured out. SPY tracks the S&P 500.The S&P 500 tracks the market.So just buy SPY and you’re done, right? But then I did some more research.And I found out there are actually lots of ETFs that track the S&P 500.Not just SPY — there’s…
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What Is the S&P 500?
After I learned about SPY and ETFs, I kept hearing about the S&P 500. SPY is supposed to follow it. Investors watch it every day. News anchors talk about it like it’s the whole market. So what is the S&P 500? It’s not a company. It’s an index. The S&P 500 is a list of…