I know nothing about stocks. I'm not just saying that, I know absolutely nothing.

I've told you before. Put your money in a nice low fee index fund. Vanguard are good but shop around. I have 30% of my dough in various index funds, 30% in real estate, 30% in with the money I manage and ten percent in various what are termed alternative investments.

The best thing you can invest in is bricks and mortar. You shouldn't be investing a lot of dough in stocks particularly in this day and age unless you have enough property to live off your property rents for the rest of your life. If you're putting a significant percentage of your dough in stocks and you don't know what you're doing, and you don't, you very most likely are not going to come out ahead.