<prompt> Human: I live in Canada and my grandfather gave me 1,000 to invest in the stock market a few years ago and said he doesnt even care if i lose it - it is intended to learn how the market works. Thing is, I am so overwhelmed by the options that I havent done anything analysis paralysis. I feel guilty that I have lost out on any dividends that I could have accrued to this point by at least investing it somewhere in the meantime.Any advice on where and how to start? What platform to use? Any help or insight for a total newbie is much appreciated.EDIT: Holy crap, I did not expect this to blow up. Thank you guys for the feedback and input - I will take the time to go through all of this and even though I understand its not much money, I feel a lot better about at least putting it to work and seeing how it goes. My grandfather will be happy I got to work on this. Thanks again to everyone here on rpersonalfinance!  <response>: I added topic flair to your post, but you may update the topic if needed click here for helprpersonalfinancewikiflair.You may find these links helpful:- How to handle - Investing wiki pageI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subredditmessagecompose?torpersonalfinance if you have any questions or concerns. 