<prompt> Human: Somehow Ive built up my emergency fund to over 30k, which I think is a bit ridiculous, so Id like to experiment with some of the excess fat. I think I wanna put maybe half in stocks. The Russells dropped over 25 since last summer, and US stocks are pretty cheap right now, so Im feeling like now is a good time to really double down there. My current 401kIRA are pretty balanced, but I want to experiment a little bit.No index funds for me, I wanna be active. Im particularly interested in contract manufacturers like Fabrinet FN, as well as Farmer MAC AGM, and gooollld. It seems like earnings and revenues have been above expectations, and gold ETFs are cheap.I dont mind going a bit mad scientist, but dont wanna get too unbalanced. Are there any safe-ish, smaller ways I could start with, to experiment?  <response>: rpersonalfinance will recommend a portfolio consisting of broad market index funds.If you are interested in deviating from this, you should check out rinvesting. 