SHARES - buying and selling?
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Congratulations on getting started. It’ll help you more than you know!\n\nHow to invest depends on what you already know. We'll assume that you're beginning.\n\nA good primer is How to Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil. You can get it cheap just about anywhere. It’s widely available new or used.\n\nAnother good one is one of Jim Cramer's books. \n\nBut books will only get you so far. At some point, you'll also want to get at least a little training. There are some great education companies if you want to make the investment. Investools.com or optionetics.com are both very good companies as is tmitchell.com\n\nFor free, you can start by visiting thestreet.com. That'll get you a pretty good primer so at least you'll understand what the markets are and what a stock is, etc. If you get a chance, watch Mad Money on CNBC. Don't trade any of his picks. Just use the show to get you to understand some basics and get a feel for the market itself.\n\nNext, subscribe to something like investorsbusiness daily or something like that that can help you identify good stocks.\n\nDo a quick search (at the top of the page) on ROTH IRAs. You’ll want to put some money in there.\n\nOnce you understand stocks, go to 888options.com. It's a website that'll help you understand options (what they do, how they work, etc). You don't need to trade them, but the more you know, the more you'll see how options can really be the safest way to invest (once you're educated).\n\nAs you get more advanced, you might want a technical analysis book like Murphy's Visual Investor or A Technical Analysis Course by Meyer.\n\nIf it's discipline (which is crucial to successful trading), probably Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas or Mastering the Trade by John Carter\n\nI know that’s a LOT to absorb. Just take it one step at a time for now. Start slow, then as you figure things out, move out of mutual funds into ETFs and/or stocks.\n\nCongrats again on getting started. If you have any questions, please let me know. \n\nHope this helps!
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When you buy a share of stock, you're buy a piece of the company, even if it's only a very small piece.\n\nYou become an owner of that company along with anyone else who owns stock in it. Each share has a voting right, so you can vote for the board of directors, the auditors and any other issues.\n\nYou make money if the company does well, and receives more income than it costs to produce that income. You'll make money either by receiving a dividend, by selling the stock to someone else for more than you bought it, or both.\n\nCompanies also have down periods, and could lose money during this time, but only if you sell your stock. You may decide to hold on and wait  it out. Look at the people who held on to Apple Computers.\n\nThere are a lot of books that explain the stock market. You can find them at your local library.
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I don't really know what you mean here--do you wish to own shares in a corporation (the source), or buy them through options?  And you want to know which is better?\n\nOr do you want to know what corporations would do?  Since the most likely scenario in a tekover would be through electing a new board of directors, they more than likely would go for the voting common shares.\n\nHope this helps somewhat!\n--J.
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In brief, buying a stock is purchasing a share of the company you are interested in. You are part owner of the company and can possibly earn money (dividends) for investing in the company. There are some cases in which stockholders are invited to company meetings (stockholders meetings) and you will be kept up to date through a annual stock report of the growth and progress(hopefully) of the company from the previous year. Also, some stockholders can actually have a voice in the company. \nBuying stocks, although can be risky, can help build your financial future and make you savvy about business practices.
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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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no, shares are for parent companies only. I would recommend opening a second.
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I don't invest in stocks.\n\nI TRADE them.\n\nAnd yes, I buy and sell shares. As a professional trader you can make money when the stocks go UP and DOWN. Yes you can make money when stocks fall in price! Trading stocks has allowed to make a living off trading stocks...\n\nGood Luck!
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get a share appl9ication foem, fill it up and send your cheque as instructed along with it. If you are no alloted anything you will get a cheque back eventually. This is the old method.\n\nHeard about a Demat account? Ask your banker about it. With one buying shares is as easy as ordering flowers over the net.
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When the details of the buy-out are released the stock price will adjust accordingly.  If the buyout is announced to be $12 per share then the stock will trade at $12 (or very close) almost immediately.  You can sell the shares in the open market at that point in time.\n\nOtherwise, you will be offered shares of the parent company (one who is buying out smaller company).  The number of shares will be a dollar-weighted average of the shares you own.  You will still come out with the same dollar amount in the long run after the conversion but it will likely be far fewer shares.
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Stocks are a share in a company.\nThe stock market is where those shares are sold.
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Some companies do allow you to buy stock directly from them. They use Direct Purchase Plans (DPP) and a Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIP).
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Share is an equity instrument which amounts to ownership of a company.Owning x no.of shares makes you a proportionate owner of the company.e.g. if you own 10% of a company's share then you are effectively owning 10% of that company.\n\nthere are a no. of reasons for which shares are sold or bought\nsome of them are\n\n1)Most of the people want to buy low and sell high so as to make a profit.\n2)shares are also bought and sold to gain management control of the company,as in case Of mergers and acquisitions.the largest shareholder generally controls the company management.\n3)shares are also sold to raise capital to finance the growth of a company.\n\nshares are traded on the various stock market.The stock market performs a very vital function in the economy of a country.\n\na) it helps in efficient allocation of financial resources.(primary market)\nb) it provides liquidity ( ease with which shares can be bought and sold ) in the secondary markets.\n\nefficient allocation makes sure that the limited financial resources are put to best use\nwhereas liquidity in the market makes sure that there are enough buyers and sellers with enough volumes of shares such that search cost in finding the right counter party(buyer/seller) is minimized\n\n\nfor more please feel free to get back.
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When selling a stock you can repurchase the same stock almost instantly.  However, for tax purposes, in order to recognize a gain or loss you can't buy the stock for 30 days after you sell it.  For example, if you see that ABC company stock has a $1000 loss and it is Dec. in order for you to claim the stock as a $1000 loss you can sell it before the end of the month and you shouldn't buy it back for 30 days in order to claim the loss.
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without researching i would suggest purchasing penny stocks.some have sold for under 3 bucks and resold for 5 to 7 a share.you would have to buy a few thousand to make a substantial profit.
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They're all good to watch. Not many worth buying, unless you like being manipulated.\n\nAnyone with a million dollars or so can pump and dump these stocks and send their prices soaring, so that you get in, then plunging, so that you lose everything very fast. \n\nOr the average guy, you for example, can start a new company building furniture. It's decent stuff and you have it built in the Caymans so your cost is cheap and you make money. Take the company public and issue stock with an IPO. \n\nWhen the stock soars on the IPO, sell your shares and start a subsidiary, and put all your money into that new company making T-shirts. Of course, the furniture company's stock fell considerably, because you took all of the cash out. \n\nWhen you make money on T-shirts, go public, and when the IPO soars, sell your shares, and buy back the furniture stock at depressed levels. Of course, the T-shirt stock goes down the tubes, because you pulled the cash out, but hey, you're making a killing onthe stock.\n\nThis is legal manipulation. You've been warned. Penny stocks are very risky for a reason, or lots of reasons. Buy something with known value, that's been around awhile, and will continue to be around. So what if you can't buy as many shares? You can still double your money, and reduce your risk in half, by investing in the future of a stable company not ran or manipulated by shysters.
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Try http://www.etrade.com\n\nSimply put: you buy a part of the company looking to profit either in the long (investment) or short term (a short term trade).
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Apparently not.  \n\nAll I can say, is that I don't have a "demat" account, whatever that is, but buying shares is not a problem.