I've been meaning to start this

I have been meaning to start this blog for at least a year. I opened up a sharebuilder account about a year and a half ago. I don't know anything about investing. Why don't SBF know about the stock market?

If you do, can you please share your insight because I am trying hard to figure this whole thing out. I pretty much purchased about $1000 worth of different stocks over the course of the year and have watched them go up and down. I don't really know what I am looking for and I get mad when some of them plummet like

FMCN: it was doing very well in the beginning then it started to fall. Now it is up again, this thing is nerve wrecking!

I also bought SLP and it was doing well for a while, now it is down. It was about $14.00 when I bought it. Now it is down to $6.00. I have beenj ust riding all of my stocks out. I haven't sold any. Do you buy and sell??