I am looking into getting into stock trading on a very small scale (less than 10k total).

I procrastinated on buying bear stearns and lost over 3k because of it. Now I am looking into a few other companies and a few more penny stocks to try to nickle and dime some spare cash.

Does anyone have a prefered stock or mutual fund that I should be looking into? I'm not looking to get rich off this or make a living off it, just looking to put together some spare cash for toys.