Can I Buy Penny Stocks With My Roth IRA?

Someone was asking me the other day if they could buy penny stocks within their Roth IRA. The answer is yes. IRA's can be funded with stocks, real estate and more. Basically, you can fund an IRA with any type of investment vehicle as far as I know. All you would do is open up a special brokerage account specifically for Roth IRA's.

Once you have the brokerage account, you could then buy stocks, bonds, options and more if your account was approved for it with the brokerage house. An IRA or a Roth IRA is a creation of the tax code set forth buy the government. These rules classify the taxation of contributions you make to the account, the returns you get within the account and the withdrawals you make from it. The day in day out operation of the account as far as trading goes works like any other stock market investing account you might have.