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Re:Robinhood and How to Lose Money by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:58AM (#23897875)
> people have been able to buy say a single share per paycheck instead of having to hold on for months to get a cost effective amount of cash to make it worth the trade

This is the problem solved by ETFs. Small amounts of money buying lots of diversification.

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Re:Robinhood and How to Lose Money by toastal on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @02:06AM (#23904660)
Not when it's $5 to trade 2 shares of SCHB because that's all the extra you can afford per paycheck.
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