Can an ordaninary family buy shares from a stock market?

Question

Can an ordaninary family buy shares from a stock market?

Answer 1

As a person from an 'ordinary family', the answer is yes.  You need to be 18 to open a brokerage account.

Answer 2

Yes they can, i have some.

Answer 3

You sure can and should be investing.  There are millions of "ordinary" people that own stock in one form or another.

Make sure you are investing through your employers 401 program, if they have such a plan.  If they do, make sure you are investing as much as you can.

However, without having more information about your personal information, such as age, current income and other data such as risk tolerance, martial status, and demographics it would be very inappropriate for me or any other responsible person to provide specific investment information in this type of media

There are many people just like you that are, or were looking to invest and those that did bought Mutual Funds and/or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).  One purpose of mutual funds is to help investors like you, who are either just entering the investment world or who have no investing experience.  Once you feel you at least have an understanding of investments you should look into ETFs which are similar to mutual funds but are traded on the exchanges.

Mutual Fund companies as well as ETFs have an entire array of products many will fit your needs. You can go to the MSN.Money website http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp  it has an entire section on mutual funds and Exchange Traded Funds.  Read about the various products and in doing so you will be getting investment ideas and at the same time educating yourself about investing.

You could also contact the funds companies for more information.  I have found that Vanguard & Fidelity can meet your needs for mutual funds.  The service and information they provide is all free and you will find it helpful.

Regardless of what you decide, do not ever let anyone tell you not to invest, especially those that do not invest themselves.

Answer 4

yes anyone who is older than 18 can own share from the stock market

it called an investment