Image source: Getty Images Back in December, the price of Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) was quite a bit higher than it is now. Even after some recent rises, Alphabet stock is still 17% cheaper now than it…

Image source: Getty Images Lots of people dream of making riches in the stock market. Yet for a variety of reasons, many of them never get anywhere close. A lot do not even put a penny in. Yet, with the…