Nowadays, trading stocks is as frictionless as it has ever been. You spend a few minutes opening up a brokerage account (often for free), fund it, then do your trading via a couple clicks of a mouse ...

For the second day in a row, the stock market plummeted, marking the worst week since March 2020. Tim Clarkson, Van Clemens financial firm stockbroker and vice president, wants to remind people the ...