I have some noob questions
can you buy stock over the weekend? how does that even work? do you just like reserve a trade and then it goes through once the markets open?
also, I am about to take a big position (for me) in IIPR mostly because I am looking for safer, modest gains over maybe 3-4 months and my money is just sitting in a savings account. But there are all kinds of shit I can buy (I am using Fidelity). Market Order, Limit Order, Stop Loss, Stop Limit... etc
and then there are options. and reddit seems to really like options over actual stock, but I don't even know what the **** that means...
Stock, you can only buy during trading hours. Some apps allow extended trading hours. You have to look at your specific broker for when their extended hours are available. Webull starts at 4 am I think. Fidelity is at 6. AFAIK, and I might be wrong, you have to put in a limit buy order and click the extended hours option to purchase during these hours. Otherwise, a market buy is just buying when the market opens. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Honestly, if you're looking for long term stuff, I love M1 Finance. You just regulate how much of a percentage of your cash you want into a stock/ETF, deposit how much cash you want, and they execute the orders for you at market open.
For example, if you want to deposit $100 between Apple, MSFT, TSLA, & DIS, you could put 25% on each stock, and it would buy $25 worth of each stock at market open. You could do whatever percentage you want as long as it adds to 100%, and you can create different pies. It's not for day trading. I have a ROTH and an Individual investment with them. Mostly blue chip stocks, maybe a couple that are a little speculative, but it's mostly "safe."