<prompt> Human: So I recently started messing around some on the stock market after a friend recommended Robinhood, a new free stock trading appbroker. Im interested in steady growth but cannot invest my time heavily into it, so my expectations are tempered. I jumped in expecting to lose some, education if anything.  <response>: So I recently started messing around some on the stock market after a friend recommended Robinhood, a new free stock trading appbroker. Im interested in steady growth but cannot invest my time heavily into it, so my expectations are tempered. I jumped in expecting to lose some, education if anything. Youll lose your ass.There are companies that do this for a living and they have computers setup physically close to the stock exchanges because milliseconds count, and they have analysts following each company in great depth, and they have buildings full of brilliant mathematicians and computer scientists and crypto people, just so they can know what and when to buy and sell.Anything you learn or can do is useless for stock trading and your only purpose would be to be on the losing side of every transaction, while making transaction fees for whoever is doing your trades.If you want to invest, buy a low-fee index fund, and keep buying more until you retire and need to sell it. Anything else is just gambling, where the house has a huge edge and you dont even know what the game is. 