I would recommend that you don't start with investing in individual stocks. Starting with only $4000, you could make a few poor choices and lose it all. Instead, I would recommend either a no-load balanced fund or a stock market index fund. I don't have a specific fund to recommend, but others here might.
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financial checklist:
[x] emergency fund fully funded [x] no cc debt [x] >10% to 401k
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