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I"m not at all, but DH works in finance. So he handles all that stuff for us!

When I was in college, we had to do a commodities trading project...The goal was to complete 25 round turns (basically 25 transactions)...I made it three because I lost all my money. Whoops.

A few years ago I did open a brokerage account through my bank and bought stock in Sun Trust, Regions Bank and Olin Corp. My reasoning was that the bank stocks were undervalued (this was in 2008, I think...bad time for banks) and when times are bad, ammunition prices go up (There was also a rumor that Obama would reinstate the automatic weapons ban, which caused a run on AKs and bullets...).

I ended up tripling my money, which ain't bad, but I don't know that I'll try it again any time soon.

I'm not comfortable with it, but DH is a former financial advisor, in the banking industry now, and loves the stock market, so I leave it up to him.

Our chihuahua knows more about stocks than me. I was actually given some company stock due to being one of the top salespeople in the country a few years ago...It's not that much but all I know about it is the value, which I guess is around $2500, and I see it when I log into my Fidelity account to look at 401K. I told DH I have it. And I guess I'll just keep it forever but I have no idea....

Neither of us know ANYTHING about stocks or investing. I feel like such a bumpkin sometimes because of it... really should get a financial advisor or something. Not that we have tons of money to invest. haha.

I do it and love it. I know next to nothing about finance but do read about the companies I like and have a finance lady who does it all for me.

I don't feel like I can really make better picks on individual stocks than the experts that have access to much more research than I do. I also don't feel that I am able to diversify enough, to spread out my risk. I have mutual funds and some company stock and options plus my retirement accounts.