Been dabbling in shares for a few years now, always seem to just miss the boat sadly.
We started a few years back with SOLg - Solomon Gold - bought at 1p and currently trading at 42p - Its been back to 2p this year though. Mates have made 10's thousands on that stock, sadly I jumped at 13p........worth keeping an eye on.
Also Marl - Mariana resources - another mining company - keep an eye on that, up and down, but some decent money to be made as each drill stream can bring anything to the surface and the stock rises and falls accordingly.
Got to look at long term investment in both those stocks though.
As for forex - mate of mine has a robot trading forex for him across lots of different currencies, bangs Β£200 in and lets the robot work its magic, doubles has cash each time but then gets greedy, ups the robots ability to trade more and loses.
Not sure if the robot is legal, so please feel free to remove if need be.