[Wilks]

Hello all my name is Brian and I am new to this community and am happy to be here. I have a few questions and hope that some of you can help me out.

Well here is the deal. Right now I have $2500 to invest and plan on adding to this total every month. I want to invest in the stock market but I have a few questions and if anybody could answer I would appreciate it greatly. First off let me say that I am in this for the long term as I am 28 right now and want to keep building my porfolio for the rest of my life and this is going to be my starting point. Here are some questions that I have:

1) What is the best way to begin in the stock market? For instance should I start out building my portfolio by buying Blue Chip stocks and large companies that might not offer big returns but also will not lose all of my money?

2) Another thing is do I buy a few shares at a time or wait until I can buy say 100 shares at a time? Example: With my $2500 should I buy 100 shares of say Dell, or should I buy 20 shares of MSFT, 20 shares of GE, 20 shares of MCD.....etc. etc. until the $2500 is completly invested and then reinvest in all these companies with future deposits?

3) After investing in these companies do I just sit on the stocks for the next 40 years or should I be buying and selling them every couple of years? I understand buy low sell high but if I just hold on to the stock shouldn't they be giving me a nice return as the years go by?


Sorry this got so long but I really would appreciate ANY feedback that I could get. I am really into learning everything that I can about stocks and the stock market right now and always have had a great interest in it just have been nervous to get started. Thank you for all your help.

Brian