Hey everyone. Totally new to investing in general, I'm a 23 year old girl that wants to invest 20% of her paycheck every month. The problem is, I have no experience and no one else to ask, my parents don't know anything about stocks. They invest and save nothing even though they have good income that exceeds their bills. It's like they'll do anything NOT to save up or invest, they'd go and buy things they absolutely don't need every month. My dad said that unless I have thousands to invest every month, I'm wasting my time and that it's not worth it.
I make good money for my age and I can probably devote $1-1.5k every month to my robinhood account. I'd rather try and grow my savings rather than dive into useless consumerism. I started out 3 months ago and since I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm down about 6% already lol. Then I found out about dividends and it looks like my thing. Even though it's gonna be slow, I'm happy to play the long game.
I have one question, what'd be a better approach, putting money into the same thing every month and growing and growing that position or diversifying and basically buying a new thing every month?