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📈 How investing works · Lesson 27
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The whole playbook in 6 rules

Everything you've learned, on one card.

The idea

Everything you've learned boils down to a few simple rules that actually win: start early, automate it, spread your money across many companies, stay calm when prices drop, and skip the hype. None of it is fancy — boring and steady beats clever and risky almost every time. 🏆

Words to know

Diversify
Spread your money across many companies so one bad pick can't sink everything.
ETF
A basket of many stocks you buy in one tap.
VTI / VOO
Broad index funds — VTI holds the whole US market, VOO holds the ~500 biggest US companies.
Compounding
When your money earns money and those earnings start earning too — it snowballs over time.
Roth IRA
A special account where your investments grow tax-free; you need a job to use one.

Try it — no account needed

Order these rules from most important first to least important last. (An ETF is a basket of many companies; diversified means spread out across lots of them.)

Tap them in order of impact on your wealth.

    In the full lesson

    1. 1Put it in order

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