Yeah, you can jump in and invest in companies like Apple, News Corp., Starbucks, Intel, Microsoft, etc. But we'll guarantee that you'll barely make any money after a year or that you might even lose money. Just letting those companies use your money for a year and not making anything doesn't seem very fun. The way to make money in the stock market is by predicting a large jump in share price and investing right before and selling right after. This is called volatility and usually lasts for a few hours to a few days. Real day traders and professional traders do just that, hence the name "day" traders. Huge companies like Citi Group and JP Morgan Chase do this every single day and employ thousands of professionals that do it for them. Let's talk about volatility. We love volatility and you will too. The reason being is that if the price is volatile, it means that the price i...