investing while in college?

Milton_Roark
Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:16:44 +0000

It depends on what you want. Attempting to work the stock market for sizable short-term gains is extremely hard and requires a large investment of your time. I imagine that such an investment would be not be feasible because you are going to school. If you wanted to try something “entrepreneur-al” that would be an excellent educational opportunity. However, there is much more risk in such a venture and it would also require a decent amount of time (depending on the venture). Investing in stocks based off of a strategy (like pickings stocks based off of their return on capital and their average yield) is a more stable long-term strategy. That strategy would require less risk than the others and would likely consume less of your time. It would not be as exciting, but it would be more likely to give respectable long-term returns. If your objective is to make more money, then I would go with a less risky strategy. If you want to have a fun thing to do on the side I would try the entrepreneur idea. Trading stocks would be exciting as well, but much less predictable.