Stock question...i am a beginner?

say i want to invest some money into Apple,do i pay every mont or do i pay 1 time fee, please help, still learning how to buy

You pay for the shares you buy and you pay the broker's commission which will vary depending on what services you wanted. Before parting with your money you could do worse than buy some good books. There is plenty of free stuff on the Internet. Apple?

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e-trade and sharebuilder I would recommend for this scenario. Zecco no way too many issues out there and I do not recommend them. Scottrade stiffed me on a sale order and I lost $85 more than I shoudl of. They are gone next week.

As for apple I don't recommend this stock (never really did either) the Iphone is overhyped, overpriced and hackable, the mac sales saved them this time. Uncle stevie is still under investigation by the SEC for his options backdating and if he goes look out.

You simply buy shares of stock in the company-- someone who already owns shares of the stock sells them to you at approximately the current market price, with the whole transaction being handled by a stock broker. For example Apple stock currently sells for $143.85 a share if you wanted to buy ten shares of it it would cost you roughly $1438.50, plus a fee to buy the stock (note, try a brokerage called Zecco, which doesn't have comissions.)

You can buy multiple batches of the same stock over time.

Hi! I recently got started myself and I started with Apple. I went with Scottrade which charges $7.00 flat fee for each trade. There's Ameritrade which charges $9.95 each, I believe, and I've seen advertising for Zecco, at zero for each trade. I started with a little over $1000.00. Apple was at $123.50 at the time and I could afford 8 shares + $7.00 for the cost of the trade (a buy). I still own those shares which are now at $146.00 or so. If I sold them at that price, I'd make the difference in profit, less $7.00 more for that trade (a sell). You pay $7.00 for each stock transaction whether you buy or sell, regardless of the # of shares you buy or sell. I plan to sit on these for quite a while. What I've done is... watch the market, watch several specific stocks, off and on each day. Do research, read books and sign up at some of the online sites for daily newsletters to be sent to your email - yahoofinance is one, the street.com is another and whichever online brokerage you go with will have a stock watching screen available through them as well. Take every with a grain fo salt. This is not something you can do well and understand without spending a good amount of time learning about it. Even then, because things change so quickly, you have to keep at it to stay on top of it. Don't get discouraged...it's an adventure if you are careful. Advice I got? "Don't risk more than you can afford to lose."

Reading artcicles about stocks, reading the research info on the companies and their earnings and looking at their history for each quarter for the last few years will also help you learn. Every trade site has a link to the company and info on it. The S& P also "grades" stocks as a buy, sell or hold but I understand they are a bit conservative. I like the rating screen at thestreet.com and you can link on to "Reuter's" on some as well which also explains their grades and some of the criteria. I look for stability and even, constant growth. How much growth is up to you. I also watch Cramer on CNBC (cable 43 here in Dallas) at 5:00 or 10:00 every night as he talks about many factors and many stocks in many markets and many sectors on each show. I suggest you read articles and watch TV shows for things to learn about the market, but take care and do your research before you take any advice on what to buy. The more you know and understand, the better your choices will be for what and when to buy, and when to buy and sell - or keep! I wish I'd learned about this a long time ago...but I'm really getting into it now! Knowledge is power and in this case, money too, I hope!! Good luck!

e-trade is a good place start. You can pay either way.

say the stock you buy is at $30 you buy 100 shares pluse you pay commisions say $9 so you pay $3009 for it. than when you sell it you also have to pay the $9 again. you pay nothing monthly

You could also try "share builder" say you don't have the $143.00 to buy one share of Apple, ticker symbol: (AAPL)

Sharebuilder lets you buy "baskets" of stock shares, i.e. $50 worth of Apple, and $50 of ATT etc. Each trade cost $4 so for $108 you would be on your way. The strategy behind this is the "dollar cost averaging" you want to methodically "sock away" money every month and buy shares of Apple.So as the price goes up, your $50 buys less, but if the the price drops, then your monthly $50 buys more shares so that on average, you're getting Apple at the best price you could.

Scottrade and E-trade are also good ways, but usually they require a minimum balance. and quarterly maintenance fees etc.

Good luck and I hope you don't miss the next Google at $99 like I did :-(

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