Play the Stock Market

“I decided to post here because I'm anxious, scared, and excited at the same time because I finally saved up some money and invested it for the first time. I quit drinking beer and buying useless crap, and saved up (don't laugh) $1,000 dollars and had it sitting there in a credit union with pennies for interest and I didn't like that. [...] The first share I bought was 1 full share in the Vanguard VGT ETF. I know it sounds dumb, but it was pretty scary and exciting at the same time. [...] But for the first time, checking my portfolio today.. seeing I'm up 1.24% with everything in green (short of stupid Wal*Mart)... I'm up a whopping $10! And I think that's pretty cool!!!”

“I've started three weeks ago and picked a few stocks I thought were undervalued, I dreamed of having a 50% ROI and dared myself to get to 30%. The first weeks were calm, I was surprized about how much of a ROI I got. But I opened my broker today and I couldn't believe how quickly some of my stocks were growing, and right now, three weeks into my first investing experience, I've made a 16% ROI with some of my stocks going up 30% from the time I bought them.”