by Carolyn Gallagher » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:39 pm
If I were to guess you sound like youve got a short timeline that you plan to invest . just this is the equivalent to going to Vegas and putting it down on a table. With $600 if you could avoid a maintenance fee which are common with low investment amounts like yours youd still be paying say $20 in commissions to do one pair of buy/sells . there goes 3.4% of your money already.
Save up your money 1st, get maybe $2k that you're wanting to invest with no intention of touching it in the next 20 30 years. Then go throw it into SPY as another user suggested, or something of the sort, but you have to keep contributing . otherwise you could mount a spectacular return in 20 years time and still only be sitting on $10k if you didnt add anything .