Beginner Investors Start Here

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The video provides high-value, actionable financial education that directly addresses common beginner questions, building trust through the creator's credentials and transparent personal results.

Summary

The creator explains how to invest in the S&P 500 by opening a brokerage account and purchasing specific index funds. She emphasizes the importance of long-term holding and distinguishes between depositing cash and actually investing it.

Structure

1Introduction and personal credentials
2Step 1: Open a brokerage account
3Step 2: Transfer money and invest it
4Explanation of S&P 500 performance
5How to find the ticker symbol
6Advice on long-term holding

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Put any questions in the comments and make sure you follow me

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Beginner Investors Start Here March 24, 2026 SWPPX SCHWAB S&P 500 INDEX -$5,000.00 Account Value* $5,745.25 Day Change $0.00 (0.00%) Unrealized Gain/Loss +$745.25 (+14.90%) charles SCHWAB Vanguard FIDELITY INVESTMENTS ***brokerage firm The Long Game S&P 500 Total Return +610% in 20 Years We are here SWPPX also NOT for emergency fund

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Highly requested video about investing in the S&P 500. First of many. #investingforbeginners #investing #investingtips #financialliteracy #finance101 This is episode 4 of my series Making Money Make Sense where I use my finance degree and personal success to teach you money stuff that matters before it’s too late. Money is my special interest, let me help you with yours! If you’re reading this far, don’t forget to follow me :)🫶 Let me know if you need help in the comments, my DMs are also open.

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On March 24th, I invested $5,000 into the S&P 500. It is now May 27th, and it has made $745. I've seen all your comments, I've seen all your DMs. Here's exactly how to invest in the S&P 500. Let's go. Before I get into it, I'm Taylor, I have a finance degree, and I've been obsessed with personal finance since I was 14 years old. Step one to invest in the S&P 500, you need to open a brokerage account. The top three I would use are Charles Schwab, Vanguard, and Fidelity. Once you have a brokerage account, you have to put money into it. Let me make this very clear. Just because you put money into your brokerage account does not mean that it is invested. It is just sitting there as cash, which is bad. For beginners, you should invest in the S&P 500. It's the top 500 publicly traded companies in the United States. People are going to argue and say, oh, but it can go down, it can lose value. Yeah, it can go down, just like anything else, but it has never stayed down. For the past 20 years, the S&P 500 has averaged 11% per year. That's pretty good. To find the S&P 500 in Charles Schwab, you have to look up the ticker symbol SWPPX. The ticker symbol is going to be different for every brokerage account. For Vanguard, it's VOO. It's the same thing. Now, listen up. This is very important. Once you buy shares of the S&P 500, you let it sit in there. This is not something that you want to take out of all the time. This is for your future, not for next week. If you need an account where your money will still grow, but you can access it easier, take a look at my pinned video where I talk about high-yield savings accounts. Put any questions in the comments and make sure you follow me because you can't afford to miss what I talk about.