Imagine you want to invest your money. One way you could do this is by buying stocks, which are small pieces of a company. If the company does well, the value of your stock goes up, and you can sell it for more money than you bought it for. But choosing which stocks to buy can be hard. It’s like trying to guess which apple in a basket will be the tastiest just by looking at them. This is where index funds come in. Instead of trying to pick one or two “best” stocks, an index fund buys a little bit of a lot of different stocks. It’s like if…