Buying up some mutual funds.

[Ray Zee]

who needs or wants several hundred stocks.
buy a few each year and as time goes by you have you own fund. some time go look at a bunch of stocks and see how they compare to the index. you will see that most stocks follow reasonably close ties to how the general market does.
when the tide comes in boats go up and when it goes out they go down. that old saying is closely related to how stocks generally do.