What investment do you get the most for your return, ex: cds, stocks, etc.?

when you mean "most for your return" I am thinking you mean either the greatest return with a minimum amount of risk, or I am thinking you mean overal greatest return. Risk and return have a fairly close correlation, so becides fixed incomes such as CD's, Government Bonds and Treasury's, the Risk and Return tend to be relative. Example; Stock might have a 50/50 chance of making 10% and loosing 10%, where Futures might have a 50/50 chance of gaining 25% and loosing 25%. If any one marketable security was superior in than Return was greater than Risk relative to other investments the market would immediately exploit it and the opportunity would dissapate to become relativly equivelent.

And an investment that just has the highest potential return would be simply to purchase a marketable security probably a future purchased on almost fully on margin, that means you barrow the money to buy the future, and keep all the gains and looses and pay only a low rate of interest on the barrowed funds. This can significantly increase risk and return if held more than a few weeks (normally an investment like this would be held for less than one day) making or loosing 40-300% could be very normal.

Individual stock. I took 20 percent from my 401k plan, and do my own investing. Right now, I am outperformed all the fund in my 401k. This is not a joke. I am serious.

that depends on the risk you are willing to take.

Usualy stocks give the more return, but they also have the higher risk.

A CD will give you less return, but the risk is minimal.

If you have a long term investment plan, you could get a Mutual fund that invest on stocks that way you'd get a good return without having to keep track of individual stocks

real estate flipping of bank owned homes, just bought one for 40k put in 18k more to fix it up and sold it for over 139k on a quick sale (if i sat on it could have got more!!) check out the local real estate adds, or online info it is easy to start up and owning property is always a low risk bet!

First you must understand that you have to be willing toaccept higher levels of risk (i.e. higher chance that your account values will go down in the short term) in order to seek higher rates of return. You also must let the length of time you can stay invested dictate your investment strategy to a great extent.

Historically, the highest average annual returns are provided by small cap stocks (stocks of small companies) over the long term. This is followed by mid and large cap stocks, high yield bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, and lastly government bonds.

CD's and money market funds are generally lower returning vehicles than gov't bonds and can be very good choices for short term investments (investing for only a year or two.)

If you are planning to stay invested for 3 or more years, it will be in your best interest to speak with a financial planner in your area. A good planner will help you explore your own attitudes towards risk and return and help craft an appropriate mix of assets to meet your goals.

CD's don't return much, but they are very safe. You can see big returns in stocks, but they are risky. I bought $1800 in stock with a company that I sold 5 years later for almost $18,000! But, usually I just go with mutual funds. These vary as far as what kind of return you can see from them, but historically, the ones with higher risks return more. They also lose more when they don't do good, but if you ride it out, the highs more than make up for the lows.