SuperFanDan

I appreciate the sincerest form of flattery, but LSU did it sooooo much better!

So I'm at Edward Jones with a money manager skimming 1% off the top every year and everyone here did a great job of convincing me that I'm an idiot.

So what should I do next? Keep my money at Edward Jones but pick my own investment options and ditch the guy managing my account...

OR go to Fidelity/Vanguard etc and leave EJ all together?

Hopefully, he hasn't locked me into EJ with golden handcuff type investments that will tax me heavily if I try to transfer to another investment management company.

How easy/difficult is it to get out of golden handcuffs?

For the record I'm about 20yrs from retirement and I've only been AUM with EJ about 5yrs

And narry a gun among 100s of people to take it down. If that cat was attacking a bunch of rednecks you can bet that video would have been a lot shorter.

I really appreciate all of the helpful responses, guys.

I would like to clarify that I have about 3k of "play money" that I was planning to use to see how I can do researching and investing that small amount on my own. Whether it's swing trading or taking a position in a company for several months or longer I guess I figured I'd learn a lot and maybe even figure out how to make some return on the 3 grand.

Also, what are everyone's thoughts on the best way to go about firing my money manager and venturing out on my own? Again, I plead ignorance on this sort of thing.

I'll start by saying that I read this board with some regularity and have always enjoyed the content and news about up and coming companies to keep an eye on.

That being said, I have never until this year put a lot of thought into actively swing trading or position trading. In fact, embarrassingly, all I've ever done is sock away money in my 401k and let my money guy at Edward Jones keep me diversified and on track for retirement.

Because I've never really pursued educating myself about investing until this year, and because none of my immediate family or close friends actively trade, I am finding that I'm floundering in my self education journey. So I have the following questions that I would really appreciate the MT boards help with.

1) What is a good resource (book/s, podcast, business journal, etc) for understanding a companies fundamentals and whether their stock price is under or over valued.

2)Where do you guys find out about up and coming companies to keep an eye on (any sector)

3) Once you find a company of interest, do you have a quick "formula" you use to assess if you want to get involved ( Revenue, earnings, assests vs liabilities, solid CEO etc) ?

Basically I'm trying to learn how to fish and not asking to be given a fish for free. Just a push in the right direction.

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Did the thug who threw the brick in Reginald Denny’s face get castrated (with a butter knife / Dr with Parkinson’s)?

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I watched a documentary about the riots (may have been L.A. 92) where they interviewed the guys who hit Reginald Denny. No remorse from any of them if I remember correctly, all of them justified it. It was the whole " Someone did or said something bad over there, so I'm justified in hurting or murdering an innocent none related person over here" excuse/logic that the left uses today. If someone says the "N" word you are now allowed to commit murder...or in this case a wrong was done so stoning a guy on live TV is your right.

..and a rough 49 yrs

We had one. It was called Cortana and then Amazon did it's thing

Me either. Why not York if you have to...at least he draws walks and can run into one from time to time.

Judging from that short vid you posted, it's more than a little....

She acted all big and bad but in the end cried like a B when they had her hog tied. The male hormones she's injected herself with couldn't keep the XX chromosome from coming out once things hit the fan and she was no longer in control.