I am self employed so I don't have a pension or 401k to look forward to, so investing is the only way for me to secure a retirement. I opened a e-trade brokerage account about three weeks ago. I'm not trying to pay rent by trading stocks, I'm a investor. Anyways I did alot of research and thought I was picking winning secure stocks (yeah right). Well in the last three weeks I lost over 5% mostly due to Apple going down 11%. What I'm looking for is somone with more experience than me (I'm 26 with very little knowledge in the market) that might be able to give me a few pointers. Right now I'm thinking of ditching the Apple and buying some GoldCorp(GG). Or maybe I would be better off buying old baseball cards? My fees are $12 a trade so that comes into play also. Well thanks in advance for any help....
Lucent