Which broker are you going through?
I'm with TDA td americatrade with their flat rate of $10 per trade unless you want to drop $25K and you get 600 trades for free.
For long, it is good for they do not charge you for inactivity fee so you can just buy a stock and forget about it. They also have investment tools for the learning for members. So my cousin signed up with them just to use them tools. I'm also involved in their forum community where all I need to do is to do a few surveys and log in 2x a week and post something stupid and already got $25 amazon gift card for doing so. So for every lost in the red, I consider their monthly $25 gift card as a rebate.
Like I said, oil will rebound by June and this is my move here as I will execute it. Ticker SD is now in the $1.30 a share. Their 5 years chart will show you that they are comfortable at $6 a share on the average and they hit that marker on every given year. They only took a dip in 2014 because of the pricing of oil per barrel dipped. So I am expecting for them to rise in 2015 somewhere. I am buying them and I am also buying call option for june exp with the strike pricing of $2 at 0.18 cents right now. So you telling me that a $6 average stock will not go higher than $2 a share by half of this year?
Anyways, I have plenty of other oil and oil services stocks that fits this bill as well and I am already on it.
Did you know that Medtronics MDT from MN is going to merge with Covdien COV at this end of this month? Better get on it. My girlie cousin works for MDT as a senior engineer in MN and I got inside trader tip a long time ago. Shhh, don't tell no one. Inside trading is illegal.
Stocks = the white man's gambling and I beat it when the opportunity arises and know what I did with my winning? I down a condo in Eden prairie just so I can have a pad when I visit MN.
Sold it for profit a few years later.