Four years ago, I was sitting inside our company\u2019s cafeteria located in the Philippine Stock Exchange and I was wondering what is this for until I watched the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street”. What comes to my mind at that time is that I need to have at least a million peso and I need to be someone with a Finance or Business degree to invest in the stock market.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\nI have no one to ask that time so I did a simple research. I got into a blog of Omeng Tawid and he did explain stock market in layman’s term. I learned that the stock market is like inflation, it goes up over time, there are times that it goes down. If you bought a candy 10 years ago for 25 centavos and sell it now for 1 peso then you earn 300% profit. I even encourage my friends to invest and I got few hesitations and summarize these into three:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\nI am poor, I can\u2019t invest.<\/strong> Then you have more reason to invest in the stock market. If 5,000 pesos is a large amount for you then maybe 1,000 pesos will not be a pain in the butt. Recently, stock brokerage firms lower their starting capital from 5,000 pesos to 1,000. It will still depend on what online brokers you will use.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n