Im only 19, I don't have a cushy job like most of you guys, i got 7k for inherticance a year ago, I wanted to get started in the stock market so i invested 5k in my firstrade account about 4 months ago, I made 700$ in a month on OTD and was doing pretty well, It gave me a nice cusion so I never got too worried, this past 2 weeks my stocks have gone down the shitter and now I'm down 50$ from when I started, I do a lot of homework on all my stocks and all this work, and I'm losing money? As a relative newbie, this scares me, I don't want to watch all this money go, I'm a full time student, lots of you guys can afford a market crash, and say "bummer". so my question is, is the stock market worth it? Is the market being this bad very common and when it turns around, what do all of a sudden your stocks start going green and make all your money back? Do I need to stop getting emotional and wait it out or am I going to continue to wake up and check up on how much money I'm losing everyday.