50 Ford Shares Purchased in My IRA

This probably isn't something I really want to buy because of the struggle of the US auto industry. However, I made this one-time purchase today in my IRA account.

Before transferring my IRA from Scottrade to Vanguard, I have four Vanguard funds plus a non-Vanguard fund, BRSIX in my account. Since Scottrade charges commission for mutual fund trading ($17 per trade), I set up automatically quarterly investment of $200 into each fund to reduce the cost to $2 per trade. One of the Vanguard funds, Wellington (VWELX), closed to investors who invest through brokerage firms such as Scottrade in early 2006. I didn't realize this change until I already had about $380 in my account that were supposed to purchase VWELX shares. So what should I do with that $380? Leave the money as they are will be a bad choice, but I also don't want to pay $17 commission to buy some more BRSIX. I want something that is cheap (so I can buy more shares), pays dividend (so it can generate money in addition to price appreciation), and has the potential to grow (so the money won't be wasted). Without too much research, I picked Ford (F) and purchased 50 shares at $7.5 per share with $7 commission.

Time will tell whether this is a good move or bad one. Either way, the impact will be very limited.

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