What I have learned about the stock market since November 2013

I got into the stock market in November 2013 mainly to own a piece of history - buy a Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) share on it's IPO (Initial Public Offering). However, I quickly realized it was impossible to do that as the lead brokerage firm got first dibs in buying all of the initial offerings and they made the profits from selling their TWTR shares. This meant I could not be the first owner of the share I wanted to buy.

How to survive this economic crisis

I first started investing in the stock market in November 2013. As part of my learning to invest, I started playing the "Portfolio" game on Royal Bank Direct investing (RBC DI) web site in February 2014. By July the first game had gone from $100,000 to $550 million. Since then that game has fallen to $388 million.