Stocks.....Anyone here own any?

Has anyone here ever bought and/traded stocks. I opened a Charles Schwab account with $160. They give you 5 free stocks to start. My plan was to buy some small stocks and dabble into it a little bit. But once i got onto the site it was like chinese i was wayyyyy out of my league. So two weeks later i closed the account. You have to sell the free stocks first before you can close your account so they walked me through it and I actually made a profit. When i closed i had $431 So im going to read buying and trading for dummies or something next time.