@Biohazard3737 @Amdalleq I put my first 10,000 in the market in 2000. Lost a lot on the principle that things that went down a lot would go back up.  I had about 5 stocks, pretty evenly divided. $jdsu, $cddd, $cedc, and $aapl.   One of those kind of paid for the idiocy of the others.