What stock to buy?

I only have a small sum of money, about $400...I wanted to buy some stock but nothing risky...whats a safe stock to buy that will produce some profit in a relatively short time (about 1 to 1.5 years)?

I suggest you to keep saving until you have at least $500.00 which is the minimum to open a brokerage account.

There are no safe stocks.

If you want to invest in the stock market you need to be willing to risk some of your money.

For example, if you have $500 and you decide to risk 20% you could lose $100.00

Hercules Offshore, Inc. (HERO)

The best way to do anything yourself is to learn something about it first. You'd be surprised at the thousands of books available on this one subject at your local library.

But most people spend more time deciding the color of their new car, than they do on a mutual fund advisor, for example.

Are you really wanting to do this yourself, or are you asking about someone who is an expert who can do it for you?

If you invest in the stock market right now, or just buy into all the ETF's you can afford, it's a crap shoot, like rolling the dice, and the odds are probably not in your favor, whether you have an expert fund manager or not, because mutual funds are always "in" the market.

They say "Buy and Hold" for the long term is better, but that depends on when you get in, and what your definiton of "long term" is. The phrase "Buy low and sell high" infers that you buy after a decline; decidedly not the case here.

The Dow is now approaching all-time highs last seen in Jan 2000, so if your long-term definition is more than seven years, then you won't mind waiting another seven years for a profit.

In my opinion, the name of the game is capital preservation. When the risks are high, like right now, you get out of the stock and bond markets and park your cash in a interest bearing money market fund or CD or Treasury Bill.

This is simply not a good entry point for investors. Be patient, wait a few months, and you'll be able to buy much more stock a lot cheaper, the risks will be lower (even though they will seem higher), and your chance of success greater.

If you wish to research the â€œBuy and Hold Strategyâ€ further, or perhaps trade yourself, I recommend two book titles. One is called "Which Is Better, Buy-and-Hold or Market Timing?" The other is "Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Market Timer?" They will give you plenty to think about.

Buy one of the big companies stock. McDonalds or Coke, maybe I. B.M.

With USD400, if you buy any stock, there is a handling charge even online. You will have to have sufficient funds to open an account with some of the service providers. Each transaction will cost around USD10 or more even if you have it done online! For a buy and sell, it will have costed you USD20 at least! If you want something safe, there are not many shares that you will be able to purchase with that amount! Perhaps, SUNW(Sun Microsystems Inc), attached is the link for its quote. If you get 75 shares at USD4.9, leaving sufficient money for transaction fees, provided that you can open the account and the transaction fee is USD10 for each buy and sell. You will break even at USD5.16 and if the price is up to USD5.5, your net will be USD25.5. As you can see that you needed to pay USD20 for transaction while you profit is only USD25.5 even after the share price went up by 12.24%.

Apple Computer (AAPL)

consider a roth ira, all profit made is nontaxable, see a pro, an accountant you can trust,

Open an Account with sharebuilder.com and stick it on Walmart (WMT) + Anheuser-Busch (BUD)... maybe UNION PACIFIC (UNP) too and re-invest any divend earn't on a few extra shares as you go along.

Use sharebuilder.com (low fees), and buy sirius satelite radio (siri); will pay off in 1-1.5 years.

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