How do you buy shares & whats minimum you can invest?

Question

How do you buy shares & whats minimum you can invest?

Answer 1

you would need a broker to buy shares, but buying shares is not effective way to invest as it's expensive and you'll need a lot of money. Try financial spread betting or CFDS (but research first).

Check out http://www.independentinvestor.co.uk , they have a nice guide to spread betting and CFDs. And most importantly they compare loads of spread betting, cfds and share dealing accounts. So try for yourself and see if it's worth it for you to buy shares.

Answer 2

You need a broker to buy. You can invest $1 if you want to not including the broker fee.

I would read the below and any other information you can before even considering buying stocks.

Stocks are a huge risk so you need to understand that you could lose everything, even that $1.

http://stocks.about.com/

Answer 3

You buy shares either (a) directly from a company through a program they run (not all companies have these) or (b) through a broker such as Goldman Sachs, etc. (the traditional brokers) or E*trade, TD Ameritrade, etc. (discount brokers).

Different firms have different minimums, for example e*trade requires you to have a minimum of $1000 to invest whereas some of the direct investment programs from the company will allow you to start with as little as $10-$100.

Answer 4

Register with an online broker, sign up with a broker, Use your bank etc.

Minimum share purchase is one share (whatever that costs.)