If you're looking at retiring in 10 years, be very careful. ANY stock can plummet and take years to recover."Cheap stocks" aren't necessarily the best idea. For example, I'd much rather have ONE share of Google (~$540) than 100 shares of Neurochem (~$6). Whether or not a stock is a good investment has NOTHING to do with the stock price relative to another stock.It's not exciting, but look at no load mutual funds that track the broad stock market or an a similar ETF (exchange traded fund).

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