A year ago, as the stock market buckled under weight of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and many investors dived for cover, Christon “The Truth” Jones snapped up Tesla shares, the savviest move of the eighth-grader’s five-year trading career.
He’s one of many kid investors out there who seem knowledgeable beyond their years. According to a Deutsche Bank survey, a new wave of younger traders has grown during the pandemic, though the under-18 crowd, sprinkled across social media, is less easy to track. As for the rules, minors in the U.S. can only trade or invest via a custodial account supervised by a parent or guardian.
Jones, whose first love remains football, hopes to one day combine his passions via a hedge fund helping professional athletes manage their money. The honor-roll student and gridiron star offers how-to investing courses through his own company, Return on Investment LLC.Not many teens would make it a point to squeeze legendary investor Warren Buffett into their weekends, but, then, Srivatsan Prakash is no ordinary 17-year-old.
Prakash also has an entrepreneurial spirit, funding early trades from a graphic-design business via Instagram. He saw success with his first stock, coffee giant Starbucks SBUX, -0.16%, which he bought in mid-2018 for $53 a share then sold when it hit $87 in mid-2019. Growth potential for microcaps and small-cap stocks often gets overlooked, and the research can be intensive, but “the rewards are better,” he says, noting that Buffett has also doled out that advice.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } Adara and Bafna had both gotten hooked on investing years earlier through Virtual Stock Exchange simulation games on MarketWatch’s website. Adara says he “became obsessed and probably spent all my class time trying to choose stocks.”
All of those mentioned want to get rich as quickly as possible-they are too young to be self-disciplined.they should be explained the difference between investing and gambling. MWatch might start series about investing for them and show them how to avoid being wiped out😉
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Bought Amazon and Tesla. A true prodigy. Where is my hedge fund?
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