Ways to be a retail investor with $100 to $1,000 or even $10,000

 So while there will be a process, there's an easy way to get set up and trade stocks, securities, and all of that. Crypto, too, on many places that do stocks in their phone applications.

I use both Robinhood and Webull because I am allowed "fractional shares" meaning that instead of buying one $1000 share in Costco, I can purchase $5 and own like 0.002 shares of Costco. However, this "dust" gets swept up if the company does a reverse stock split (probably also a normal stock split) since you wouldn't have an actual single stock so, well, you usually just get the trading value for the stock when the corporate action is taken on the number of stocks.

Robinhood: https://www.robinhood.com/

Webull: http://www.webull.com/

There are also places that you can go to for currency exchange, including cryptocurrencies. This would by Uphold and Coinbase. Coinbase is exclusively cryptocurrency, I believe; however, Uphold does let you purchase securities in precious metals and also national currencies.

Uphold: https://www.uphold.com/

Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/

For cryptocurrencies, you can also look at websites such as CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap so as to find particular exchanges (for non-major cryptocurrencies, not on major institutional places like Uphold or Coinbase) to trade in both major and minor cryptocurrencies.

CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/

CoinMarketCap: https://www.coinmarketcap.com/

Some small exchanges that I know of are NonKYC, Xeggex, FreiExchange, StakeCube, Dex-Trade, BTC-POP, and QuTrade. This is mainly since I like to try and juggle FREED until, one day maybe, it takes off.

NonKYC: https://www.nonkyc.io/

Xeggex: https://www.xeggex.com/

FreiExchange: https://www.freiexchange.com/

StakeCube: https://www.stakecube.net/

Dex-Trade: https://www.dex-trade.com/

BTC-POP: https://www.btcpop.co/

QuTrade: https://www.qutrade.io/

Essentially, you just take your money and stash it in a different form until the value is worth more than when you initially put it in; if you can wait for that, then you can at least get pennies from time to time. Plus, it's like a piggy bank.

Granted, it's not a glamorous way of "stock trading" like being the "Wolf Of Wall Street" and managing billions of dollars but, ya know, pennies with $100 is worth more when you change the orders of magnitude that you have invested; over time, as you put more in, you'll have more return when the price fluctuates just a little.

More fun way of having a savings account, I guess, than just opening it up in your bank: you can say you are trading stocks and mean it, seriously.

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Oh, I forgot! I use Yahoo Finance, from time to time, so as to have a more-or-less full accounting of my stocks in both the Robinhood and Webull portfolios. There's more that I would like to use it for, sure, but at least I do that with it.

Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com