text: if i am 18 y.o., where should i invest my $300? i would like to buy stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or just put it in a savings account, but i don't know which one. 2 choices:  1) open an account with sharebuilder.com and invest the money on shares in either anheuser-busch(bud), walmart (wmt), union pacific (unp), canadian pacific (cp.) or toyota (tm) - sharebuilder are alot cheaper than other traders because they buy the stocks for their clients in one bulk block every week and split them between the clients (instead of lots of individual $1,000+ trades with a $10 commission fee)...... because of this it also allows you to buy fractions of stocks in a company e.g. you stick $100 on stocks in a company with valued at $200/share you still get 0.5 shares in that company. before investing in stocks..... learn everything you can about them.  2) invest in some gold bullion - either in bar or coin form.