If I wanted to buy 100 shares of stock on a co. on the NYSE ....what would be a fair price(commission) to pay?
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Pay a $7 commission fee using scott trade
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The answer is by using simple mathematics.\n\nFirst you need to decide how much of each stock you are going to buy - since not all stocks are priced equally some would be $20, other $400 and some 0.05 cents.\n\n$100,000 over ten stocks... Decide what ratio you will hold of each stock. E.g. 6:3:4:1:9:4:3:7:9:2\n\nSo totalling the ratio is 48. Now you can use a combination of the ratios and fractions to find out how much stock you can hold with your $100,000.\n\nI may have left you out on a limb there - but this calculation is uneccessary. Why don't you just buy your stock one by one until you run out of money? :P\n\nOK Lets try the example with 2 stocks and $100K\nyou want the weighting to be 3:4\nso you want \n3/7ths of your money to go to 1 stock\n4/7ths of your money to go to 1 stock\n\n3/7*100K=$42857.14\n4/7*100K=$57142.85\n\nNow say stock ZXC was $5 each and stock ABC was $67\n\nNow you go:\n$57142.85/$67=852.88 Stocks\n$42857.14/$5=8571.43 Stocks\n\nThere you go. Now do the similar calculation with your ten stocks! Haha!\n\nGood Luck!
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You can't buy stocks that are listed on an exchange without going through a broker.  Those are the rules.  Big brokerage companies don't rip you off anyway so don't worry.\n\nCheck with a US broker - I'm sure some of them must allow you to trade on the TSE from the US.  Alternatively you might consider buying a Canadian ETF (exchange traded fund) - www.fidelity.com sells them.
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LEt me know.\nWhat is your monthly trading volume...\n\nHow about 1cent per 1 share..\nand pay as you go..\n\nLike for 100 sares you pay $1\nand so on..\n\n\nGirish\nkgirishraman@yahoo.com\n\n\nLearn Free Day Trading Online,Intraday Trading Course, Learn Day Trading Free.\nhttp://lansing.craigslist.org/fns/172121865.html
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Don't focus in the price per share. You could buy an over-priced $1.00 stock. Focus on good companies with sound financials and a good business model that you believe is going to keep the company growing. Even if the price per share is $100. You can buy as little as one share. Another couple of things: always diversify, and think looong term. Good luck!
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I'm afraid that your question is apparently based on several separate misunderstandings of the way the stock market works, so that it is not possible for your question to be answered. If you are asking this for a specific reason (for example, if you are trying to figure out a way to fund a startup company) then you really should consult with an attorney who specializes in corporate law. If you are asking just out of academic interest, let me point out a few of the basic problems:\n\n1) A company with 20,000 investors cannot, under US securities law, have an IPO. An IPO is an initial public offering, but if a company has over 300 investors, it is required to file publicly, so it would already BE public, and thus could not have an INITIAL public offering in the first place.\n\n2) At an IPO, the company initially begins selling shares (not "stocks") at a particular price, after which the market bids the price up and/or down. Therefore, a company is not legally allowed to offer any particular class of people (such as investors) a discount to the market price.\n\n3) The number of shares being bought or sold is completely irrelevant without looking at the larger picture. One share of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is currently trading at about $87,000 but one share of many 'penny stocks' trade at $0.01.  Therefore the value of 2,000,000 shares (not "stocks") depends on a large number of factors, such as whether there a total of 2,000,00 or 200,000,000 shares issued.\n\nAs you can see, this is a big, complicated question, and you really, really should speak with an attorney if you are thinking about DOING anything along these lines.\n\nA good way to get a quick introduction to how the stock market works is to play the Stock Market Game, which is at the URL below (and it's free).
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Frankly don't know any under $10.00 per share.to me the price is secondary to performance. Better 10 shares of stock in a company that produces than 100 in a dud. recently took a position in PTF-a Canadian oil trust-hdqt in Calgary-.bought it at 17.65 2 months go and it just hit 20.65 this past week-did sell some-.I intend to hold on to the rest for the long term-not just a quick flip.WHY ? Cause it pays apx 10 % in dividends, 17.5 cents per share/per month,and it is only paying out 45 % of it's earnings. Chevron-a US co-may make billions-the CEO etc. get big bonuses-but unless you buy & sell at just the right moment-you-the stockholder-may get 'nuttin'-I'll take cash in my pocket every day,over the ups & downs of the market-that is full of 'wheelers & dealers',more interested in a quick 'fix' return than in serious investing-many of these lose their shirt & lots more.Also use Brownco in Boston as my broker-commissions only 5.00 per trade,and margin rates the lowest in the market. It recently became an ETRADE company-time will tell if stays as good as it has been- I am a retired high school dean & coach-who loves to travel-not a financial planner-hence I want investments I can 'rest easy' with,not lie awake worrying about-I do monitor my positions every day-aside from that buy a good energy sevice mutual fund-several on the market-one of mine went tp 100& this past year.
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If you are getting money from the public then you want to be a publicly traded company (stocks etc).  The initial investment for the NYSE to investigate the worthiness of your company is very expensive.  And since you are just starting, the odds are pretty low-- no track records.\nIf you believe in your company then raise the money yourself, or get a business loan.
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Yeah it normal to be charged some fee. 2% seems kind of high, but then why do you need stock certificates ? Just keep your stocks in street name. The certificates can only be used as wallpaper if the company goes broke, they don't give you anything else.
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Okay, I don't know what all that was about...\nIf you mean buying shares of stocks, then you should open a "brokerage" account with someone like ScotTrade.\nEach share is a small piece of a company and the price is given in USD ($).\nYou buy pieces of the company and hope that the price will rise.  After some time, you can sell it into your account and keep the profit!  It is fun, too.
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WOW! I hope you are not into heavy investing or your company has not been removed from NASDAQ or AMEX or NYSE. It means that the Company is doing very badly and these exchanges don't think their stock is worthy of trading on their exchanges. Many times their stock might get listed for trading over the Bulletin Board. If even that that does not happen it'll have to trade over the counter if some broker thinks it is worth his while to make a market in the stock of this company. If an investor is wise he would have liquidated his position of the stock of this company long before this happens.\n\nOfcourse if you are a speculator with deep pocets you might start accumulating the stock of a company not before this happens but after it happens with the hope that some rich person like Ican will get greedy and starts buying millions of shares of the stock of this Company with a view to turning it around so that it will go up.\n\nBut I'd not want you to fiddle around with the stocks of these companies if you are not a speculative investors with deep pockets just because you received an email touting the virtues of some company. It is usually the work of some pump and dump scheme which will be a cause for your financial burn down. You don't want it to happen. Financial burn down is not pretty.\n\nBetter be satisfied by saving a penny or two by looking at the prices of several merchants like the affiliates of NEW ERA WISP. A penny saved is a penny made.
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If you're willing to accept the risk of losing it all, buy a call or a put option that's just out of the money.  In other words, pick a publicly traded company (with a lot of volume) that you feel strongly about.  You can make a lot of money quickly if you think the stock will rise or fall and you pick it correctly.  For example, say you think that you have a strong opinion on Microsoft (MSFT), here's what you do:\n\nThe stock is currently trading at $28.77\n\nIf you think it will go up, buy a CALL option, which gives you the right (but not the obligation) to buy MSFT a higher price.  For example, you can currently get a DEC 30 Call on MSFT for .20 per share on a contract (of 100 shares).  \n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSQLK.X\n\nSay you buy 5 contracts and the stock goes up to $32 before Dec., you can either sell to close your option for the going price or exercise it at $30 and make $2 per share.  Here's what you would net:\n\nPurchased 5 contract ($.20 * 100 * 5) plus say $15 commission = $115\n\nExercised ($30 * 5 * 100) = $15,000\n\nSold ($32 * 5 * 100) + $15 commission = $15,985\n\nMade $15,985 - $15,000 - $115 = $870 profit on $115 or 405% return.\n\nTruth be told you'd probably just sell the option, but the profit would be about the same.  If you think MSFT will go down, just do the same thing with a PUT option.  That said, if you guess wrong you could lose your initial $115 and if it doesn't move much you could lose most (or all of your money).
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No, it's not just $80.24 - $21.56.  \n\nFirst, we need to find out if there were any stock splits (adjustments in the price of the stock and number of shares outstanding) in IBM's stock during that period and adjust the resulting current price accordingly.\n\nFor instance, suppose a person bought 100 shares of IBM stock at $50 per share.  Then within the first year of ownership, there was a 2 for 1 stock split.  At the moment that the split takes effect, that person who owned 100 shares of stock at $50 apiece would now own 200 shares of the stock at $25 apiece.  If after a few years the price of the stock made it up to $45, it would look like that person had lost $5 per share (-10%) during that period.  In fact, he made 80% taking into account only the price appreciation of the stock, assuming no transaction fees.  His original investment of $5000 (100 shares at $50 apiece) would now be worth $9000 (200 shares at $45 apiece).\n\nFurthermore, assuming IBM pays periodic dividends (profit distributions to shareholders) which is more likely than not, the number and amount of these dividends received would need to be added into the person's ROI equation.
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Very little. You can start with as little as $10 at www.betterinvesting.org\n\nYou can go directly to a company's "Investor Relations" area and see if they have a direct investment option.\n\nYou can also check out this company that can get you started for $4 plus a commission plus the cost of the stock. www.sharebuilder.com
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Very negotiable depending on the sales price.  High end=2%-3% and at the last minute the commission can be butchered just to hold the deal together.  Lower end pricing can go up to 10%.
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I'm not aware of any limits.  You can buy or sell as many as you want.  In some developed markets if you buy more than approx 30% of the stock you can be forced to make an offer for the remaining 70%.
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I believe Google trades on the LSE as GGEA.\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GGEA.L\n\nAlso, most UK brokers can also buy shares of US-traded firms for their clients.  I expect you would pay up a bit on commissions.