Originally Posted by
strombone
Investments are complicated, time consuming, and will only give you 3-10% return. Investments are meant to be where you put your money instead of letting it sit in the bank. If you have $100,000 in the bank, you are losing money. The money is just sitting there and you're making nothing. But if you invest in a decent portfolio, start up an IRA you can put that money that would otherwise be doing nothing, and increase it over the course of 5-10 years. But again, the return is not something crazy, especially with only $1000. You won't get rich quick with $1000.
Your only option with such a small "investment" is flipping. Flipping is taking your money, purchasing something, and hoping to sell it for much higher. This is how people made crazy money with crypto early on. They bought for low, sold high. In a sense, yes it was an investment but it was more of a gamble because they had no idea that it would skyrocket and the value was all speculative (people buying because they think that it will go up in price). Market is much too volatile now for you to risk making such an "investment".
My recommendation is the same as everyone else's but taking it a little further. Take that $1000 and turn it into $1500 with refunds/SEs. Then take that $1500 and turn it into $2500. Keep doing that until you reach $10,000. You can keep flipping that money with refunds and SEs but if you don't want the risk of that anymore, then open up an online business. What business is up to you, there is no secret magic to making money online. And if there was, no one would share it.
Good luck brother.