what online stock traders allow you to buy partial shares, with no minumiun account balance?
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Use Scottrade, sharebuilder charges 20 bucks for live trades. Scottrade is 7 bucks for all trades and requires only 500 dollar initial deposit. Just save up until you have 500.
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sign up for an etrade account. then you can try to buy in conditional offer. $2000 minimum to open an account.
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The most common way is to purchase a mutual fund. These can be purchased directly from the mutual fund company. If the fund is a no load fund, which many are, there will be no up front costs. \n\nAs one of the responders mentioned, you can buy stock directly from the company in some instances. But in order to do that you must already own some shares in your name. \n\nWith the advent of internet stock brokers, the commissions are no longer so costly. Some on line broker charge only $7.00 a transaction. A small fee considering the services you receive. \n\nRemember. Once you buy the shares, at some point you may wish to sell them. That will require a broker. Mutual fund shares are purchased back by the mutual fund. Again there is no fee.
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You need to open an account with any of online broker.\nI recommended Scottrade, it is good for small individual investor like myself.  Low commission, no extra charge for limit order, and no inactivity fees.\n\nhttp://scottrade.com/
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Try tradestation. They charge $7 a trade...and thats it. Firms charge you for everything from trades to withdrawals of your own money.
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3 ways. 1 you might write to yahoo and buy direct from the company. 2 you could hire a broker to buy your stock.  3 open up an account with e-trade or someone like that.
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If you have some money and you buy several per month, use Interactive Brokers.  Their commission is $1 per trade.  If you don't do about 8 trades per month, though, you get hit with low activity fees.  You could buy several in one month and then transfer the stocks to a discount brokerage that doesn't charge inactivity fees.\n\nIf you don't have much money, some companies will sell to individuals, but watch out for fees.  Check the investor relations tabs on their Web sites. \n\nA last resort is sharebuilder.com.  They won't buy even shares and it's expensive to sell, but it's cheap to buy there.
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I know that you'd prefer not to go with a broker, as you intend to let ti sit for a few years, but it really is your best bet to go with a discount broker.  Scottrade will let you purchase unlimited shares of the stock for $7 and charges no monthly fees, even if you never make another trade again.  With no monthly fees, there really is no reason not to use a broker.  ShareBuilder offers the same thing for $4, but only if you sign up for their automatic Tuesday investments.\n\nBoth of these options are acutally cheaper than buying the stock directly from the company's share transfer agent.
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Scottrade. Max of $7/trade, unlimited number of shares. No fees for inactivity. Great reports and statements.
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You can go to the company's home page and find out if they have direct investing options.  You see some companies allow you to buy stock directly through them McDonalds is one such company.  Buying common stock this way allows you to save money on brokerage fees.  Some companies sell for a small fee for 1 or two dollars and others for free. \n\nYou can also talk to a financial advisor.  Your local bank is a good place to start.  You can also find a financial advisor the American Express.  You can also open an account with one of the online trading companies.  However, research these carefully/.  I also suggest setting up a special bank account if you are going to do this.  This will prevent someone from using you online account to completely wipe out your savings.  \n\nOne last thing remember the market is an extremely volatile and you need to research any company prior to investing in it.  And any investment you make may bring larger rewards are extremely large disapointments.\n\nGood Luck!
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Try Morningstar (MORN) and Ruth Christie (RUTH). Also, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and NYSE (I think it is NSE)
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I use Stockwiz for end-of-day trading. It's completely programmable, which is what I wanted, but the programming language is .... primitive.\nBut it's free.\n\nhttp://www.stockwiz.com/\n\nCaveat:\n- I am still using version 3, although there is a version 4 available\n- You still need a service to get your daily stockquotes, which is most likely *not* free
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With brokerage fees so low, why do you care?\n\nYou want a "discount" broker, or online broker, rather than a "full service" broker, which gives advice. A broker is the last person you want to ask for advice. You just need a licensed broker to do a transaction for you.\n\nOr, you might try selling the shares back to the company direct.
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According to government regulations, you need not start a demat account for selling shares less than 500 numbers. But the condition is that there must be a buyer who is ready to take your whole 50 shares at the agreed price.\n\nIf you have a demat account, you will not face this difficulty. you can sell your shares partly too.\n\nFor trying to sell your shares without demat account, approach various brokers.\n\nBut my advise is to start a demat  account
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depends on how active a trader you will be. if you are just buying and holding without keeping a large cash balance then Scottrade is a good choice. Low Commissions.\n\nFidelity.com has very good rates for active traders and has great mutual funds and high paying money market funds for idle cash balances.\n\nSchwab.com commissions are slightly higher, but if you are a very active trader they will compete with other brokers to get your commission rates down.\n\nBrown & Co is now part of Etrade, since I don't care for Etrades service or market making I cannot recommend them at all. Brown is only $5.00 per trade.\n\nAmeritrade... I know many people who use them. It seems as if the website for trading is down to often for me. Schwabs Streetsmart Pro is rarely out of service.
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InteractiveBrokers has $1 trades, which is as cheap as you'll find.  You need to make 10 trades/month.  If you're an active trader, that should be no problem.\n\nScottrade is one of the best that actually has branch locations.  They charge $7 for limit and market trades.
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You can open a share builder account. I can't tell you which stocks to buy, that would make me your broker.\n\nYou can also learn to trade options, which can also make you alot of money in a short amount of time.