Buying and Selling Stocks/Investments

You can do it yourself using E-trade or similar for very low per trade cost. However, most online brokers require that you establish a substantial account to cover your trading activities. Using a personal brokerage firm will cost you more and they tend to have an inherent conflict of interest since they get paid by the trade and for their advice not by how much money you make.

I've been researching those different sites, and why Im curious what others think that may do this.

I've just been looking for something different since myself and my wife each have pretty good retirement accounts going. I've been on some of those Lending sites, but the return is pretty low and also slow. I would like to play a little bit with some extra money I have to see how it goes.