I'm going to be starting a couple jobs soon, my first jobs ever, and I want to take this newfound income and invest a lot of it into a broad scope of different things. I'm thinking some of the bigger American names, like the typical Apple, Tesla, etc. I'm also looking at things like Russian natural gas producers, some of the bigger Chinese firms like BYD/Huawei, Chinese/Canadian rare earth miners/refineries, etc etc.

Anyone with experience in investment, especially investment into international markets and a wide range of industries, have any advice for an absolute novice?

>>33216042 (OP)
>Canadian
Best investment is a government retirement scheme. You put in money and your employer and govt also put in money- free money.
Also it is invested in an index fund which will give a good average return over time.

>>33216430
That's weird I didn't write Canadian.

>>33216042 (OP)
Just by index funds. You're not going to outperform them by buying individual stocks and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying and/or trying to sell you something. "traders" are dumbasses.

Save your money for the anduril ipo

>>33216817
So, after briefly skimming the overview of an index fund, you're essentially buying what is a reflection of the entire index? So all those "DOW up 7 points" yadayada news blurbs will be relevant to me now?

Also, can you buy index funds of international markets? Or is this only a US thing? I'd like to diversify as much as possible, especially with how unstable the US is right now.

>>33217745
Yes, an index fund buys either the whole list or a representative sample, so you are tracking the Dow or S&P or some other list, on the assumption (valid 90% of the time) that the whole market does better than individual stocks and is a whole lot more predictable and safe.

There are index funds that specialize in certain sectors (retail, utilities, pharma, etc) and also international (broadly or individual countries)

Look for "No load" funds, that don't have commissions or buying-in charges. The typical index fund will take out about 1% as their annual handling charge.

>>33216042 (OP)
There is a Wall Street mantra that "The Little Guy Is Always Wrong." By the time an amateur investor has got the idea a specific stock might be hot, the pros have already bought and sold it and its hotness is over.