how does an ordinary person sell a stock without having to pay someone to do it??
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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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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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You can day trade ETFs (exchange traded funds).\n\nMany (maybe most, I'm not sure) mutual funds impose a fee if you sell funds you have held for less than 30 or 60 days. This is as a result of the market-timing 'scandals' of a few years ago.
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The most Basic,Direct way To Profit from Falling Stocks requires what is called a SHORT SELL Position.\n\nA SHORT is ...Selling Stock that You Do Not Own.\nThe mechanism to accomplish that is to BORROW\nThat stock,,,and then Sell it.\n\nThat act puts 2 Things in Your Account:\n#1>The Cash Proceeds from the SALE\n#2>The DEBT of the stock that You Borrowed\n\nWhen the Stock Drops in price,,You BUY the stock to replace\nthe stock You Borrowed.\n*Your "Debt" is cleared by virtue of Returning the Borrowed stock\n*Your Profit is the Difference between the HIGH Price you Short-Sold it,,,and the Lower Price at which you Bought the Replacement stock.\n\nThat seems odd to many people.\nAmazing the number of active stock traders who dont seem to grasp the concept.\n\nA simple analogy:\nYou need a Dozen Eggs,but dont have them.\nSuppose Eggs are selling for $1/Dozen,,,and that You Know they will be On Sale Next Week for $.70/Dozen.\n\nSo You BORROW the Dozen from Me...with a promise to replace them in the future.\nYou give me an "I-O-U 1 Dozen Eggs"\nOk,,Next Week,,You go buy a Dozen at $.70 and replace the Dozen you Owe me.\nWe're square,,You're debt is squared,,,\nand You have $.30 More in your pocket than if you'd bought the Eggs at the Current Price of $1 .\n\nMakes No Difference to me what You paid,,,\nI have my Dozen of eggs back.\n\nTo Sell Short requires a certain type of Brokerage Account,,called a Margin Account.\nIt is basically a "Line of Credit" type of account which accomodates You incurring the "Debt" of BORROWING STOCK to SELL.\nYou REPAY the debt by Replacing the Borrowed STOCK.\n\nIf You can BUY the replacement stock at a LOWER Price than you Sold at----You Profit.\n\nIf the Stock price happens to RISE,,,you'll have to Buy replacement stock at a Higher price,,,,,and You'd LOSE money on the transaction.\n\nShort Selling still obeys the premise of "BUY LOW>Sell High" in order to PROFIT.\nThe difference is a matter of "Pay me Now,vs Pay me Later"\n\n.....................................................\nA ShortSell position or Option Put would profit from a decline in Share Price.\n\nDetermining a particular stock's relatives/comparables will often reveal Weak stocks,or Overbought ones in the group.\nThose will usually be the most likely suspects in the sector.\n\nYou can also study Historicals of a Individual stock & of it's sector,,,and discern any seasonal or cyclical aspects.\nFrom that You can anticipate those tradiditional corrections(declines in price)\n\nAs well  as creating as Leader/Laggard list of the Bunch.\n\nIf the motives for a Stock's fall are based upon News/Events etc,,\nConsider whether the Impact is Specific to that company or generic-to it's  industry or business niche.\n\nThere's also usually some Contrary Implications.\n\nExample-A,,"If Oil Falls,,Holiday Retail Rises"--\nthe premise is that event is so influential on general economy AND people's household budget---Falling Oil Boosts both their Consumer confidence And their immediate spending power.\n\nExample-B,,"If Stock A Drops on Individual Specific problems,,\nThen it's Direct Competitor Stock B becomes more an attractive position to maintain exposure to that particular Biz Niche/Industry\n\nExample-C,,A Stock can easily be Oversold--Fall TOO far due to a specific cause.\nMkt's famous for Overreacting.\nThe Steep Sudden Drop Might be a BUYING BARGAIN PRICE.\nIt Could be Fundamentally Oversold.\nAnd it also Could be TECHNICALLY Oversold,,,,and give a strong signal of a releif bounce--a rebound in Price-- being due.\n\nVery little happens in a vacuum--\nAny time A stock,,or a Group of Stocks,,or an Industry Sector,,or even Broad Mkt Falls(or rises)...it triggers a ripple thru a wide range of interrelated  issues.\n\nYou can make $$$:\n*On the specific Stock's Fall\n*On it's releif rally/bounce\n*On it's
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Scottrade does not do that (its so lame!) You have to either go there, or mail something to them. They are much better than sharebuilder though.
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Short selling is the selling of a stock that the seller doesn't own. More specifically, a short sale is the sale of a security that isn't owned by the seller, but that is promised to be delivered. That may sound confusing, but it's actually a simple concept. \n\nHere's the skinny: when you short sell a stock, your broker will lend it to you. The stock will come from the brokerage's own inventory, from another one of the firm's customers, or from another brokerage firm. The shares are sold and the proceeds are credited to your account. Sooner or later you must "close" the short by buying back the same number of shares (called "covering") and returning them to your broker. If the price drops, you can buy back the stock at the lower price and make a profit on the difference. If the price of the stock rises, you have to buy it back at the higher price, and you lose money.\n\nMost of the time, you can hold a short for as long as you want. However, you can be forced to cover if the lender wants back the stock you borrowed. Brokerages can't sell what they don't have, and so yours will either have to come up with new shares to borrow, or you'll have to cover. This is known as being "called away." It doesn't happen often, but is possible if many investors are selling a particular security short.\n\nSince you don't own the stock (you borrowed and then sold it), you must pay the lender of the stock any dividends or rights declared during the course of the loan. If the stock splits during the course of your short, you'll owe twice the number of shares at half the price.\n\nAlso, because you are being loaned the stock, you are buying on margin. In fact, you have to open a margin account to short stocks. Your broker will charge you interest on the loan and you are subject to rules of margin trading.
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If you're talking about a publicly traded corporation such as General Electric, Wal-Mart, etc....NO, a stockholder can sell his shares to anybody he wants to...even if not selling via the services of a stockbroker.   However, if you're talking about a privately held corporation...almost anything is possible.  Many privately held corporations have all kinds of buy-sell agreements among the stockholders so that the remaining stockholders don't end up being in business with a stockholder they don't know or don't want to be in business with.  It is not inconceivable that a corporation could have a clause in their bylaws that would indeed require that a stockholder must get approval of the Board of Directors before he could sell his stock to someone beside one of the existing stockholders or the company itself.  As a matter of fact, I'd likely put this kind of clause in any company that I would form.  It's a good protection for the stockholders...even though it does limit the marketability (and hence the value) of the underlying corporation shares.
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Open a brokerage account with at least $350.00 and invest in the stock market with the help of a Financial Advisor like myself and when your stocks are up by 5% (Which could take as long as a week) you sell them and make $3.50 (Asuming you are a Scottrade Customer paying $14.00 in comissions) \nKeep doing it over and over for at least 300 times and you will get $1,000.00\n\nNote: \nIf you invest $700.00 you only need to wait until the stock is up 3% to sell and that could happen in two days.\n\nIf you invest $1,400 you only need to wait until the stock is up 2% to sell and that could happen in one day.\n\nYou get the idea.\n\nTop 3 Answerer in Business & Finance. (Vote for me)
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You can do  that by many ways.Buy and sell share, by spaculate a good price, you can invest in lands or buildings, which you will sell later for a bigger price, you can do some retail trade, you can offer some information for people how have no time to spend for search.
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If for some reason you do not wish to open a stock brokerage account, contact your local bank and ask them if they will buy stock for you.  Also ask them how much they charge.  An on line discount broker will charge you about $10.
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1) No (They just charge a very small comission. Typically less than $9.99)\n2) Yes (It takes a few seconds)\n3) Market Price\n\nIf you want, you can open a brokerage account with at least $500.00 in 15 minutes or less at Scottrade and then you can buy a Mutual Fund for $5.00 and then sell it one minute later so you can see for yourself how this really works. (It will cost you 2 comissions of $7.00 but education is priceless)\n\nIf you need more detailed information you can drop me a line.\n\nTop 3 Answerer in Business & Finance. (Vote for me)
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You used the example of Microsoft, which is a very actively traded stock with huge volume. \n\nWhat you are suggesting is either arbitrage, or stock manipulation; probably the latter. Surely you aren't mad at Microsoft?\n\nFor the size of this company and number of outstanding shares, it would take hundreds of millions of dollars to move the price of the stock significantly. You would never move it to $1, because everyone knows the stock is worth more than that, and that the company is not going out of business. You could sell a billion dollars of that stock and not cut it in half.\n\nIf you're near a brokerage office, stop by and look at a quote machine and observe the active bids for Microsoft -- there are millions of shares bid at every price level close to the current price. Those are the people that you will have to take out before you move the stock price significantly. \n\nThe floor traders and dealer/brokers and specialists do not literally "set" the stock price; supply and demand does that, and you better believe there's going to be a huge demand for Microsoft at $15 or $20, after you sold your billion dollars of stock, and after you get through the millions of shares quoted at bid. The net effect will be that you lose at least 10% and probably 20% on your foolish endeavor to try and manipulate the price against market forces, when demand comes surging in and drives the price back up.\n\nThat's a cool $200 million loss to you.
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Just think this through for a minute.... say you get listed on the pink sheets.  How is anyone going to trade shares?  Naturally, they have to own them.  Which means you, or your company, have to sell them the shares in the first place.  And to do that, you have to register the shares with SEC -- regardless of whether they're traded on the pink sheets, OTCBB, Nasdaq or NYSE -- unless a registration from exemption applies.  But if you're planning on pink sheets trading, even if you can find an exemption it won't help b/c the securities you sell in an exempt offering would be restricted, i.e., the purchaser can't just turn around and sell them, they have to hold onto them (typically for a year).\n\nSo no, you can't avoid the hassle, you need to file a registration statement with SEC and, possibly, with the state securities regulator for every state in which you offer the shares.  Talk to a securities attorney.
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Now a days most of banks are themselves a stock broker.   Hence they can themselves sell the sahre on-line as per Stock Exchange rules .  If the banks are not themselves stock broker , they can prefer to sell through a registered stock broker .
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There are various methods of buying and financing stocks. The most common means is through a stock broker. Whether they are a full service or discount broker, they are all doing one thing—arranging the transfer of stock from a seller to a buyer. Most of the trades are actually done through brokers listed with a stock exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nThere are many different stock brokers from which to choose such as full service brokers or discount brokers. The full service brokers usually charge more per trade, but give investment advice or more personal service; the discount brokers offer little or no investment advice but charge less for trades. Another type of broker would be a bank or credit union that may have a deal set up with either a full service or discount broker.\n\nThere are other ways of buying stock besides through a broker. One way is directly from the company itself. If at least one share is owned, most companies will allow the purchase of shares directly from the company through their investor's relations departments. However, the initial share of stock in the company will have to be obtained through a regular stock broker. Another way to buy stock in companies is through Direct Public Offerings which are usually sold by the company itself. A direct public offering is an initial public offering in which the stock is purchased directly from the company, usually without the aid of brokers.\n\nWhen it comes to financing a purchase of stocks there are two ways: purchasing stock with money that is currently in the buyers ownership or by buying stock on margin. Buying stock on margin means buying stock with money borrowed against the stocks in the same account. These stocks, or collateral, guarantee that the buyer can repay the loan; otherwise, the stockbroker has the right to sell the stocks (collateral) to repay the borrowed money. He can sell if the share price drops below the margin requirement, at least 50 percent of the value of the stocks in the account. Buying on margin works the same way as borrowing money to buy a car or a house using the car or house as collateral. Moreover, borrowing is not free; the broker usually charges 8-10 percent interest.
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funny!  You don't.  Day trading is VERY risky no matter how you do it.
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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.