I have a friend that has a few thousand in John Deere. Seems to be pretty steady but unless you buy low and cash in high you don't gain much. They rarely split. I should take a few thousand and get into the market online. Learn a little and if I loose I don't loose my retirement.
Actually, don’t. Learn first. There’s a really good website, that’s free, used by colleges and high schools to teach investing. It’s very informative and even has a free online, real-time, real stock simulator.
basically you create an account, use fake money like in monopoly to buy stocks that are real and the prices are in real time to the markets. Allows you to experiment and learn without ANY risk at all. Then when you’re ready, you can go to a place like Etrade and do it for real. It’s essentially a “game” you won’t lose anything, won’t win anything. And it’s done in real time at real speed, with the goal to learn real stock strategies.
I’ve been using it since 2004... I’m still learning new tricks and strategies.