Jon Sheppard’s Blog

I recently opened an account with an online stock trading platform and made my first stock purchase. I know, I know- slumping economy, bad market, the end of the world- every reason in the world not to invest. I guess I’m just exercising some faith in capitalism?

Truth is, I just want to learn the process and educate myself. Lest you think I’m some sort of big shot Wall Streeter, I’ll just say that if you knew how many shares I bought, you would laugh! I purchased a few shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock. I realize that I don’t know jack about when is a good time to buy and/or sell, I just want to give it a shot.

Anyway, I’m really hoping that Apple’s announcement on Oct. 14th includes aluminum-encased MacBooks and I’m excited to find out what the “brick” is. Oh man, I’m gonna make bank!