But be prepared for the worst

Use coinbase. Until you get the hang of what you're doing, you can also make free coin from it too. So it basically let's you play around for free. That's what i recommend to everyone at first.
Then I'd switch to bittrex. That's my personal fav for day trades.
Then I have hard wallets for the rest of my stuff that I just hold and don't mess with.

This multinational inter industry investors/share and digital coin based market makes my head hurt a bit

But that's to be expected with all those complex interactions

You can also always invest in stock for a longer term, get lower taxes for that instead of getting hit with short term capital gains taxes (which I hear is just normal tax)

and you don't get taxed until you pull it out and it becomes realized gains

if you lose money, it's realized losses and you can actually write that off on your taxes

Oh really

What is the tax percentage? Or it depends on the value?

percentage changes depending on how much you made, just like with income

puts you into a higher tax bracket the more you make.

Interesting

This is foreign to me, here in PR it always stays static no matter what you earn
It's an 11.5% and increasing, corrupt sons of bitches

They get billions and we are still on debt

how old are you?

and do you have a retirement account setup? You should at least be contributing to that, earlier the better

like a 401K or Roth IRA

18 now, just getting the hang of a bunch of stuff

ok, you don't necessarily have to have an employer that does matching retirement fund contributions, you can always open an account and just do it on your own

although it's a nice thing to have when looking for work

the earlier in life you start that, the better. Lots of people think that just depending on social security will be sufficient, but it won't be

This is quite the change of old ways
How old are you?
I suppose you are... 20s early 30s...

or they'll start their retirement account in their mid 40's early 50's and they're screwed

30's

I started my retirement account when I hit 20, and just had a "set it and forget it" approach to it.

automatic contributions from my paycheck would go to it and I'd check on it every once in a while

I've always gotten myself around by washing cars, selling newspapers, that type of stuff
This... is so alien, but it will come as benefit

Tho I dont want to dedicate my life into the economy, everybody wants to be rich but life has taught me its better to just be sufficiently well off for your family and to help others

yeah I've also been thinking about setting up an IRA or a 401k plan

I have a couple grand to put toward that

I'm planning to start one as well, maybe freeze some funds on an account gaining interest and figure out a way of getting a passive income while I'm either studying or already in business

But greed is... quite the motivator
I need to learn to control it, before I throw myself in

is there another way to build up money but like not for retirement?

savings is too slow

obviously I can't access social security or anything

I have 2 grand just sitting here

Also you can't touch the money in your 401k or Roth IRA without getting penalized heavily in taxes. You have to wait until you're actually retirement age to pull money out of it

yea but

man idk...

Yes, which I reckon would be a good thing for people with bad spending habits

(me)

And the big difference that was told to me is 401K doesn't get taxed when you put money into it, only taxed whatever the tax rate is at the time you pull money out, and roth IRA is opposite, whatever you're putting in gets taxes deducted, but it's tax free when you pull it out (many would argue this is the better way to do it since nobody can tell the future and taxes usually get worse over time)

yeah that's true

I know a guy which has inherited his family's fortune
Hes essentially a multi millionaire, but under the condition that his funds would be frozen and hes given a consistent 9k a month for his expenses

9k a month here it's quite a lot
Yet he still lives on the streets, blew everything on drugs

Sad, and hes homeless until the next 2k weekly payment, where he blows it all in 2 days