Dipping a toe
After a lifetime of standing on the sidelines watching the stock market (other than my 401k’s mutual fund allocations and Upromise/SLM employee shares) I decided it was a good time to learn more first-hand. So I set up an ETrade account and made a small investment spread across GE, CVX, GOOG and JNJ. I’m not expecting to see any gains for several years but I’m hoping the analysis I’ve read is right and this is a relatively cheap, relatively sane time to get started, in the grand scheme of things.
