I did some pretty intensive and detailed research on the tobacco industry and was pretty impressed with the stock performance of the big boys such as British American Tobacco ("BAT"), Philip Morris  International ("PMI") and last but not least Japan Tobacco Inc ("JTI"). Among the three, PMI was out as its on NYSE and the hours are totally opposite from ours. BAT was also considered but the charges are absolutely exorbitant and ACCICB has been going on and on about how much we spent on charges and how we should never do UK stocks anymore.

I don't mind since it means one less exchange to monitor and I don't have to comb through it to find suitable stocks. Seriously, you need a lot of money to make a little money on the stock market, assuming that you don't screw things up. Thus, I don't advocate quitting your ...