Sometimes you just want to put your big-boy pants on and do it yourself.
Do-it-yourself investing, better known as DIY investing, is when individuals decide to take their portfolio into their own hands, managing them without a stockbroker, financial advisor, or similar financial-person.
These DIY’ers aren’t without help, though—they often use helpful online investment platforms (which are cheap, because there's no investment advisor person...only robo advisors) to make it rain money, via investing smartly and saving money from paying way less in fees. Makes sense knowing that many investment advisors don’t beat the market anyway (but they still collect their fees).
The best part of DIY investing is that, when you want to scream at the idiot moron who paid $123 a share to get you into Sears stock, all you have to do is find a mirror.