The usual advice from experts who aren't trying to sell you anything is to go for a stock market index fund with low fees. For example, the Vanguard VTSMX and V

The usual advice from experts who aren't trying to sell you anything is to go for a stock market index fund with low fees. For example, the Vanguard VTSMX and VFINX are hard to beat. If you picked individual stocks, you would pay more in transaction fees and probably have lower returns -- beating the market is hard.