My bank is scowling at me for having $15,000 in my non-interest checking account sitting there doing nothing for the past 6 months. It's been sitting there because I don't have a clue how to invest and make it grow on it's own. I only know how to keep piling more wages on top of it.
They said their rates for investments were like 0.01%apr and advised me to put it somewhere where it will grow.
I set up an ING Direct savings and checking account and moved $4k there because they looked like they had one of the higher rates of interest.
Now I need advice.
Should I just move everything out of my regular bank, no interest paying checking to my new ING Direct checking?
Should I sign up for their Sharebuilder account and invest in stocks?
Is there something more I should be doing that I don't know about?
I've never invested in anything before so I don't even have a clue how to start at this.



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