I first started investing at the age of 18 with some money I saved, buying a few shares of stock...
Today, I still maintain a portfolio of stocks and I have traded commodities in the futures market off and on since 2000:
My current personal portfolio is represented in the ticker at the bottom of this site.

Click any of the links on the left to learn about various types of investment securities and how to trade them...

In the meantime, to gain some perspective that I wish to share,
consider this next statement made recently by Pope Francis:
"As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that matter, to any problems."

~ All quotes are as of the last business day's closing price ~