It's kind of sad when the only thing I really know about stocks is from the old cartoons where someone accidentally pushes a red button and makes everyone at Wall street panic and yell "SELL! SELL!"
I started messing around with it on Robinhood and made a nice mint so far, but today everything is crashing pretty hard. Makes me think of the old cartoons.
If you do not understand what you are doing get out.
Robbinhood lets you buy on margin. This means you "buy" with a small down payment. If your stock goes up your money is leveraged and your returns on "investment" are large. But if your stock goes down an "investment" of a few hundred bucks now is leveraged into a debt of thousands.
Personally I was raised with a solid family education in deep financial literacy. I was clipping coupons from bonds as early as 4 and owned stocks at 6.
And even knowing what I was doing I still got out.
Kingnobody probably is way better at this than I.