about your stocks ideas. ive been in your shoes trust me this is not an option. stocks a a really risky, im telling you cause i learnd it first hand.its true that every stock if given enough time will go your way, but problem is if you use credit support from broker your position will be reopened every day or so, and u lose money every day if you miscalculated market trend. if you use only your money to buy something the profit wont really be worth it. and if you think you can calculate the trend, or your trader friend tells you that, be wary that information about someone trading huge amounts(and thats the only thing that matters) is considered mostly illegal. and to guess is... well its just a guess, even if you make fundamental or technical analysis you can only assume what was going on BEFORE, and that information is mostly useless.
Ps i was trading in forex and got from 500$ to 2500$ then lost everything, then from 800 to 1400$ and so on and so on. you can try, just know that you make me sad about my money i sent(