I'm 21, I know very little about investing or the stock market, and have never invested before, but from everything I've seen and read over the past couple days or weeks, now seems to be a pretty good time to invest into some stocks while everything is at a lower price then what it was before
I have about 1-2k that I could invest which yeah people might laugh at that cause maybe its not a lot but its just what I have and what I can do, and I would be ok with investing it knowing that the stocks potentially go even lower, knowing eventually it will hopefully recover but I figure might as well do it now instead of waiting trying to time the market and losing out on the "sale". I figure I could buy a bit of Apple, NVidia, Meta, Google stuff like that that's generally pretty safe but is on sale, am I right about that, or the S&P500.
So a couple questions I have:
1. What platform or app should I use to buy stocks, is robinhood good? Some of my friends use it, if not what to use
2. Lets say I have 2k to invest should I do it separately over 2 weeks, or over 2 months, or $500 a week, or all at once?
3. Is there any measure I need to take when buying a stock, do I just buy it and its there in the platform until the day I take it out?
4. Best things to invest in, or from your experiance best thing to invest in? As I mentioned above those are kind of the stocks I figure id try and get a couple of
5. Any other general advice you can give id appreciate, again not trying to do to much or go all in on stocks but I figured again I have some extra money id rather invest while the market is down then just have it be sitting doing nothing
Thank you in advance