With me working from home for the past couple of weeks and having my eTrade account up on my laptop with my 8-year old running around, the kid has taken an interest in the stock market. I guess he thinks the black screen with red and green numbers looks cool. He found the stocks app on his iPad and came in to show me that "he was on the stock market, too."
I'm thinking this may be a good opportunity to get him to play with some trades on his own - buy some Disney or other companies that he is familiar with and watch what they do. Possibly either a real RobinHood account or a paper trading account through TOS. My hesitation with TOS is that, when I played around with it a couple years ago (without a TDA account), the signup process was cryptic and there was no option that I could find to reset your account credentials.
My personal accounts are with eTrade and I don't know that it would be the best idea to co-mingle the 2 at the same broker since it is all going to be tied to the same online login credentials.
Anybody done something like this with their kids and any observations or recommendations?