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TeenVestor® Stock Certification Course
The TeenVestor® Stock Certification Course takes teens ages 13 and up from zero knowledge to confident investor, fully online and completely at their own pace. The lessons cover real investing: stocks, ETFs, and crypto basics, without the jargon or get-rich-quick nonsense.
No deadlines, no scheduled classes, no teacher needed. Everything is taught through text, video, and audio in plain English that any teen can understand. The full course runs about 9 hours, finished over a weekend or spread across as many weeks as your teen needs. With lifetime access there's never a rush: the course is theirs to access anytime, and it keeps getting better year after year.
Built by the Princeton and Wharton grads who wrote the book on teen investing. 91% of teens who complete the course say they feel ready to invest. Includes a free copy of the TeenVestor book. 60-day money-back guarantee.
How To Invest Under 18 & Begin a Life-Long Journey
Yes — you can start investing before your 18th birthday. But you can't do it alone. A parent must help you open a custodial or teen brokerage account. Once it's set up, you own real stocks and funds. Some brokers let you start with just $1.
Our complete guide on how to invest under 18 shows you every step: which account to open, how it works, what to buy first, and the tax rules most teens miss.
Starting young is your edge. Money invested at 14 or 16 has decades to compound. Wait, and you never get those years back. Learn the basics. Invest a little. Let time do the rest.
Free Stock Research Apps for Teens
These four apps help you find companies worth investing in — and research them before you buy.
Find Stocks Related to Your Hobbies & Interests – After choosing hobbies or interests, the app gives you a list of related companies.
Find Basic Company Information – Look up stock symbols, explore different industries, and access annual reports.
Find Companies In Your State – Discover major publicly traded companies headquartered right where you live.
Do Deep Company Research With Our Company Analyzer – Dig into detailed information about any company that interests you.
Money and investing apps for kids and teens keep disappearing — shut down, acquired, or quietly discontinued. EarlyBird, Stockpile, and Flyte are just a few of the well-known platforms that have vanished, leaving families scrambling to figure out what comes next. When a teen money app or custodial account provider closes its doors, parents and young investors are left wondering: is my child's money safe, and where does it go? In this article, Youth Money & Investing Apps Keep Disappearing, we explain why these fintech startups keep failing, what happens to your child's money when an app shuts down, and how to choose stable investing apps and custodial accounts for young investors.
Stocks for Teens
With more than 6,000 stocks traded in the stock market, it would be difficult for kids or teenagers to pick stocks for their portfolios. However, they can begin with big stocks in market indexes (such as the Dow) and stocks of companies they may know. For example, some of the more popular brands teens like include: Nike, Chipotle, Vans, and many others. These are all possible stocks teens can invest in after they do some basic financial analysis on the companies. In this article, Stocks for Teens, we walk you through how to choose the right stocks.
Crypto Funds for Teenagers
January 2024 was the first time investors accessed crypto through exchange-traded funds (ETFs). So, cryptos like Bitcoin can now be bought directly from online brokers like stocks. Yes, it’s still risky to own crypto! However, teenagers remain highly interested in owning digital assets because they are radically different from how their parents use and invest money. The new crypto ETFs have reduced some of the risks involved in holding crypto by ensuring that holders won’t lose money due to fraud by an exchange, as was the case with FTX.
Investing in Funds for Teens
Investing for teenagers is much easier with index funds. With these funds, teens who don’t know how to pick specific stocks can rely on the value of stock market indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard and Poor’s 500 and the NASDAQ. These types of index funds are the cheapest (and probably the safest) way for kids and teens to invest in the stock market.
