Let's Abandon These 5 Stock Market Myths for a More Profitable Future

Myths about the stock market can conjure up images of ruthless investors in slick suits, taking money from the working class. It's time to abandon those myths -- and the fear they inspire. Here are five common misbeliefs about investing, dispelled.

If Ronald Read were alive today, he might laugh at the notion that you need money to make money in the stock market.

Read was a gas station attendant and janitor who died in 2014. Given his job history, his income probably topped out at something less than $25,000 a year. (ZipRecruiter pegs the national average salary for a janitor today at about $25,000 annually.)

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