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It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.

You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.

I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.