<prompt> Human: I am a honors student and I skipped a grade in math, so he thinks I can do better in the stock market then he did.He originally invested 10K into this account and sold all his stocks after they crashed in the late 1990s, he left the account alone until now. He recently looked at it again and thought it was a good opportunity for me to learn about the market.Im just looking for tips in general, anything helps.Thanks a ton!  <response>: Wow your dad turned 10k into 2k. Depending on what he had if your dad had held on to his stocks instead of selling he might be sitting on 50k right now instead of 2k lol. Id resist the urge to impress your father by becoming a 15 year old day trading prodigy. TD Ameritrade has a list of commission free etfs one of which is VTI you could just put it all on that and let it grow and reinvest the dividends over the next 50 years, by the time youre ready to retire you might have a tidy sum. 