If you've bought a handful of stocks in the last year, here's a question: do you actually know how your portfolio is performing? Not a gut feeling, the real number.
For most first-time investors, the honest answer is "not really." And that's not a personal failing. It's a design failure of the tools we're all handed.
The tools weren't built for you
Open any major brokerage app and you're greeted with candlestick charts, moving averages, P/E ratios, and a dozen other metrics that assume you already speak finance fluently. If you didn't study economics or work in trading, none of that is intuitive, it's a foreign language dressed up as a dashboard.
