How to Make Money in Stocks

Investing is one of the best ways to build wealth over your lifetime, and it requires less effort than you might think.

Making money from stocks doesn’t mean trading often, being glued to a computer screen, or spending your days obsessing about stock prices. The real money in investing is generally made not from buying and selling but from three things:

Owning and holding securities
Receiving interest and dividends
Benefiting from stocks’ long-term increase in value