re: Newbie investing in individual stocks

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Stay out of individual stocks. Look at ETFs.

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Good advice. I'm going this route, although I do have a fair amount of individual stocks. However, these are all long buy and hold type stocks for me, most with dividends. I have no intention to "day trade".

As for the online sites, they are very easy to use. It really comes down to features and cost depending on number of trades. Most are pretty similar. I personally use sharebuilder because it has $4 automatic trades (only on Tuesdays), no minimum, free dividend reinvestment, and instant transfers with Capital One.