I know a little bit about stocks, and have no problem buying them straight up.  For example, if I have $3000, then I can buy $3000 worth of stock.  I am looking into trying to extend my money to purchase more shares, if this is at possible.  Also, if you have any tips on what the best way of purchasing shares is, that would also be helpful.
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Only one way to make your money go farther:  BORROW.\n\nOptions:  These are contracts that you buy which, if they meet a certain criteria, allow you to purchase shares at a set price at a set time.  For instance, a contract to buy 100 google shares at $225 on April 1st.  YOu might pay $70 for this contract (at least).\n\nOn April 1st, you have to buy the google shares.  If they are worth more than the $70 price in your contract, you gain 100 shares times the difference.  BUT>...  if they are worth less, you have lost the difference.\n\nI recommend you check out www.motleyfool.com or other investing sites.  When in doubt, check with a professional.\n\nAlso, online stock challenges are a good way to hone your skills and strategies without risk.  JUst write "stock challenge" into any search engine.  GOOD LUCK!
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Coach has maxed itself out @ almost $40.00 per share and will never offer you much of a return unless it plummets back down to it's foundation price.  \n\nIt is too high and was only a productive purchase to those smart enough to get in on the ground floor.  \n\nIt is rated at an 8,  a great stock to own but as far as it going up enough to make you money...  I don't see it happening.  It wont ever become an Abercrombie or an american eagle.  I don't think so anyway...  always go with your gut!  I would hate to be the deciding factor and you not do something you should have done. \n\nCheck out Psun...  It just split and is still cheap!
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deep discount brokerage...like scottrade, e-trade....\n\nyou don't want commissions eating up much of your $500\n\nstart with something relatively safe...\nI would recommend a high dividend paying stock....so that you are getting something while you save up for your next investment\n\nwhat to try???\nUSA, ASG, IAF, GIM \nCNE, PGH, PDS, ENT, BTE\n\nThese are relatively inexpensive and pay a nice dividend....\n\ngood hunting
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Well, the old addage is true...it takes money to make money.  The more you have to invest, the more you can make.  I've made $30K in one day based on one buy of $100K worth of the stock.\n\nOne word:  RESEARCH\n\nRemember, the more you invest, the more you can LOSE too!!!
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If I were you I would definitely stay out of the stock market altogether right now.  You need WAY more knowledge than it appears you have and any money you "invest" without knowing what you are doing is basically just outright gambling.\n\nAlso, you say is there a good "stock" when in fact the most important rule is to diversify and buy many stocks. If you buy only one, it could go bankrupt, which has happened to me twice in the past when I was young and didn't know better.\n\nWhen you do buy stock though, one good strategy is to find a product or service that has just come on the market and you and your friends love it.  If it is that good, then probably lots of other people will love it as well, which means more sales and more profit for that company.  Just make sure it is a product/service that is innovative and just came out, like....krispy kreme when people were first getting into it.
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I've been studing the market game for about a year now, i didn't knew anything a year ago, I havent invested anything yet, i've just been practicing in stock simulators like stocktrak.com for about 2 months now, im happy i've made almost a 7% in my simulations (im happy with that since i am a rookie), I think I need to do a lot more reading, studing and practicing before I invest a single dollar for real. I think now I understand the markets much better.\n\nSince I am in a similar position as you are, just 1 year ahead studing :) , I would strongly recommend you to start by studing Profr. Peter Navarro's material. First I studied his audio course "Big picture investing", and read his books "when is raining in Brazil buy Starbucks", "when the markets move will you be ready?" and now i'm reading his most recent book "the well timed strategy", for me it was great to start with the audio course, since he explains the basics to understand the market, and it comes with a very didactic printed course guide. Profr. Navarro has been a great teacher for me, I don't think there are other books as good as this for a beginer, and belive me, i've done my research and been reading a lot!! after the audio course i was able to understand and take more "juice" from his books and other books that I have read, I recommend you to do the same thing.\n\nRegarding the Can Slim system teached by IBD's Bill O'Neal, I think he is a real master, his investing approach is great and relatively easy to follow if you use the investing tools on investors bussiness daily and do your research homework every day, actually, I just took the Can Slim Level I Seminar some weeks ago, and I am already subscribed for the level II seminar to be held at the end of this month, BUT, if i hadn't studied Profr. Navarro's material before, I am shure I would understanded much less from the can slim seminar, so I recomend you to start with Profr. Peter Navarro's material, its great material and has been a lot of help for me.\n\nYou can find Profr. Navarro's audio courses and books at barnes and noble, either in the book store or online, is not an expensive material, i would have pay 10 times its price, its worth much more.\n\nAnd, once you start to study, the learning curve never ends!! start with Prof. Navarro, before you buy any material much more expensive and not worth its price, belive me i've done it :(..im shure you will thank me.\n\nGood luck!!!
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The first thing to do is go to the library and check out a couple of books on investing.  One of those books should be on technical analysis. The other on investing in stock and fundamental analysis. \n\nThe next thing to do is set up a practice portfolio on Yahoo finance and pick some stocks that you think might do well. Pretend that you bought them at a certain price and see how well you would have done or how badly if you had really purchased them.\n\nNext open a brokerage account either with a local broker or an on line broker. The on line brokers will be less expensive and give better service in my opinion. You will need to fund the account. Different brokers have different minimums. I would suggest starting out with $5,000 minimum, but that is up to you. \n\nIf you are thinking about trading stocks rather than investing, you will need to read carefully about technical analysis.
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Your question reveals the fact that you are a complete newbie with very weak basic, fundamental knowledge in the stock markets and is about to do something you might regret for a very long time.\n\nInvesting or trading the stock markets never start from asking how to buy a certain stock (lets not even get into why you want to buy SIRI in the first place because you won't be able to answer why either.)... it starts from adequate investment and trading knowledge. There are quite a number of things you need to learn before you can even start thinking of the stock markets ...\n\n1. You need to understand how the stock market works and what it is exactly about.\n\n2. You need to know what are the different styles of trading in stocks and shares. \n\n3. You need to read about why so many people lose their shirts in the stock markets so that you can avoid their mistakes and also decide if this is a risk you want to take.\n\nFor all these issues and more, you can read about them from some of the articles that I wrote at http://www.mastersoequity.com/articles.htm \n\nAfter you are adequately armed with the basic concepts and ideas, you need to know how to find profitable stocks to trade or invest in. You can do that the easy way by subscribing to stock pick services (example http://www.stockpickmaster.com ) or you can learn to use charting tools and softwares to find stocks with parameters that you can pre-define. (example http://www.worden.com ) \n\nAll in all, investment and trading is a lifelong education and non stop learning. No one is ever done learning and catching up with changes in the markets. \n\nIf you care to read about how I went from completely broke to retired millionaire trading stocks and options by 28 years old, you can go to http://www.mastersoequity.com/\n\nRemember, the slogan "Just Do It", Just won't do for the stock markets. If profiting in the stock markets is as simple as buying a single stock , then why are so many people still poor?\n\nAfter you have all the above mentioned knowledge, you need to ask the following golden questions before you can decide whether a stock is worth buying or not :\n\n1. Why are you of the opinion that this stock will rise?\n\n2. Is your opinion valid in the first place?\n\n3. When are you expecting it to rise? Can you hold on for that period of time or longer?\n\n4. What is your expected entry price? After what price would your expected profit margin be too thin to enter upon?\n\n5. Where is your expected stop loss point? What is your stop loss point based on? Where will you tell yourself that it is time to take a loss and get out?\n\n6. Where is your expected profit taking point? What is your profit taking point based on? \n\n7. Does the way you are buying the stock allow you to hold on until your expected profit taking point?\n\n8. How much of your money should you dedicate to this one trade?\n\n9. What is the level of primary, secondary and idiosyncratic risk you are undertaking when deciding how much of your fund to use?\n\n10. What is your cashflow need? Does your cashflow needs allow you to hold the full lifetime of the stock?\n\nAfter you are able to answer all these questions confidently, THEN you are ready to... PAPER TRADE your stock strategy. Yes, even at this point, you are NOT READY to trade for real. You should trade on PAPER for at least 6 months and become consistently successful BEFORE you take your stock strategy into real life.\n\nThen.. you are ready to start... but there is still no guarantee of success as paper trading is very different from real trading. You will need another maybe 1 year or 2 trading very little money and be consistently successful BEFORE you are ready to increase your stakes.\n\n\nSo, as you can see, success in the stock markets is not easy at all the the less knowledge you have, the more risk you undertake.  I lost hundreds of thousands in the stock markets before I become successful.\n\nTake heed and good luck.\n\n\n\n
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Several years ago there was a commodity traded, maine potatoes.  Every year for something over two-dozen years, the price would go up in the middle of January through early February.  Information was not as free back then, I could track causes better today on the Internet.  So I had some money and practiced trading in corn, making a little bit while getting the ropes.  The target was this, the smallest increase was 8 cents a pound, 50,000 pound contracts.  I caught it on a down tick and felt like a surfer catching a wave.  Unfortunately, it was a tsunami.  There were several millionaires who had also spotted the trend and they thought they could buck it.  So the price went limit up, trading stopping after the first couple of minutes, doing this for a few days, then limit down, again stopping trading after a few minutes into the next trading day.  I got a margin call, but it was for more money than I had, so the brokerage confiscated my position.  When the dust settled, the price had indeed gone up as I antcipated, but I was trapped out, unable to profit from it.  For that matter I was paying off that debt to the brokerage firm for years, instead of paying off my mortgage, which is what would have happened if those guys hadn't been greedy.  Meanwhile, it bankrupted something upwards of 100 rich traders who had tried to turn the market, and sent something like 60 to prison.\n\nThis doesn't happen all the time.  Just be careful, you can lose more than you put in, although trading the option MAY limit that.  For instance, even in stock options, if you sell a naked option and things go against you and someone calls that option and you haven't had a covering option to cancel, you are on the hook for supplying the shares.  Be careful of trading too close to the expiration.  I remember positioning for one thing expected to go up, and by the time the events began driving it up, my option was close to expiring, I got almost nothing out of it.\n\nA good plan is a wonderful thing.  But with commodities and commodity options, there is still uncertainty, and definitely danger.
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I'm a long-term investor and believe in holding stocks... for decades.  If your gut, however, is telling you to take a profit... there's no harm in it.  And if you think some other stocks show more potential, no reason to hold off reinvesting in those.  As for me, I'm keeping my oil stocks... indefinitely.
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Whoah!  Hold the bus!  The advice that includes gregarious reactionaries and traders like Cramer or commodities needs to be held off with the proverbial "ten-foot pole."\n\nGo to CNN Money, Motley Fool, MSN Money, Netscape Investing etc. which will give you a clear, comparatively safe starter advice.  Ask your broker (I recommend Scottrade, sharebuilder, or schwab) about some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like Diamonds or Spydrs or the like--these let you buy a cheap sampling of the Dow Jones Industrials or the Standard & Poors 500, comparatively safe but still very good, profitable companies.  They are about as sexy as steak and potatoes, but they are as substantial as steak and potatoes.  \n\nAs for individual companies, first--does it make a profit?  As for any other features, news, or events, first, does it make a profit?  Second, does it have a triple-digit price to earnings ratio?  Then there are too many people thinking it will be big and it won't likely be big enough to please them all.  If you divide the profit by number of shares (most stock sites will give this information for free, usually doing the arithmetic for you), and the result is higher than 30-something, stay away.  If the number is a negative number, go back to the other rule, first, does it make a profit.
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Even a small holding like this can be a great opportunity to learn about the stock market.  Try to save more and add to your position.  I am not crazy about At&t, but since you have the shares why not find out a little more about the company - listen to their quarterly conference call:\n\nhttp://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=113088&eventID=1392075\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about the stock market, I would suggest http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx\n\nGood luck!
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I would open an account with sharebuilder, there are very cheap and you do not have to buy tons of stocks. They have good investment tools also. In my opinion, the most important thing is to be consistant and make sure you are putting something away every week or month. It becomes a good habit and the money starts to pile up.
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With all due respect - and it's wonderful to see someone so young who is managing so well - but I think you might be just a little bit mixed-up here.\n\nThe option, in this case a call, will have a B/A (bid/ask) spread.\n\nIf you were to enter an order to buy it, you could specify a price (a limit order) that would be less than the asked price, or you could enter a market order that might get filled at the ask price you see on your quote screen, or it might get filled at a higher price.  \n\nWhen trading options, I absolutely never, never enter market orders.  Why not?  "It's a license to steal."  There's nothing to prevent the MM from jacking the ask when he sees your order.\n\nHow to choose the limit price that will 1) be less than the ask and 2) will actually work so you can get the job done?  This is a bit of an art.  Get detailed quotes for everything, GOOG itself and options with strikes close to the one you're interested in.  Examine the sizing.  How many bidding, how many offering?  Is GOOG trending down this minute?  This day?\n\nWith respect to the option you're interested in, if there are 399 contracts bid and only 7 offered, and GOOG is trending up, you'll have to set your limit order closer to the ask to get the job done.  If the situation is reversed, you can come down in your limit price, closer to the bid - but why would you be buying at just that minute anyhow.\n\nLastly, don't want to rain on your parade, but please keep in mind that countless studies have shown that it's the buyers of naked options who are the ones that lose money.  It's the option sellers who make money, because they are selling time value.\n\nYour broker probably won't allow you to sell naked options.  You could do a spread combination, going long one option and short another option.  For example, in a calendar spread one would buy a call farther out in time and sell a near-term call which would be covered.  If the near-term expires out-of-the-money one then sells another near-term, and so on until one catches up with the long-term position.\n\nThere are countless variations and all this requires quite a lot of study first.  CBOE has a virtual option trading model, so you could play with virtual trading while you get the hang of things.\n\nWishing you great success.
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EAG is trading this morning. $1.54 last trade, has traded over 65000 shares this morning. Whatever broker you are using is a moron. The pennies you are saving from using a moron is costing you lots of aggravation and lost trading opportunity. There are lots of discounters out there...i would find another if i were you!
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Buying a stocks is like you'r buying a peace of company.  That's mean you own a small peace property of a company.\nYou are betting on the future of company success.  If they fail or in some cases, they go bankruptcy, you lost the entire money.  Your shares become worthless. \n\nTo get started, you need to open an account with any on line brokers like Fidelity or Scottrade.  Some brokers required minimums to open account.  For example, Scottrade required $500 to open.  Once you activate your account, you can start trade online.\n\nIn your case, I would recommended you read a books on how to invest in stock market.  I suggested you read, How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O'neil, and One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch.  My last advice to you is don't lost any money okay.
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Do your own research and don't rely on other people's "tips"   I started doing my own stock screening and research this past year and I've earned higher returns this year than in years past.  Based on personal experience, most stock tips are useless.