How do I become a stockbroker?
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try business or finance degree, then maybe a Masters in finance.
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Technically, it is extremely simple with today's information era to invest or trade stocks and shares. You simply need to open a trading account, fund that account, buy a stock and sell it later at a higher price for a profit. Simple?\n\nYou can sign up for an online trading account with http://www.sharekhan.com\n\nWell, that simplicity is exactly the sheep skin that hides the wolf beneath. That is exactly the expressway to wasting a lot of money.\n\nInvesting or trading the stock markets never start from opening a trading account... 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.metastock.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 want a reliable, sure fire method to trade the indian market, please go to http://stocklab-india.mastersoequity.com . There, you will also get to read about why most beginners in the share market lose all their money and how to prevent that from happening to you. \n\n\nHope these information helps.
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Stocks represent ownership in a corporation.  When a company goes public, they sell shares to the general public thru an underwriter who sells the shares to large clients.  Once these large clients have the stocks any individual can buy or sell these stocks in the open market -- once you have access to the market.\n\nTo get access to the market you need to open up a brokerage account with an investment company.  If you have never bought or sold stocks before I highly recommend that you get your feet wet with mutual funds first -- reading the prospectuses could provide you with some information about what THEY look for when purchasing stocks and bonds.\n\nThe stock market is the bets place to have your money for the long term, but you really should leave it to the experts -- funds are a great way to diversify, particularly with limited funds.
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Well first you need to find a broker. Like ameritrade, scottrade, e-trade, td waterhouse, shwab, ect. \n\nPersonally I use scottrade. only $7 to make a trade unlimited shares, market and limit, no maintenance fees, no inactivity fees or any fees unless you specifically use a service that has a fee, but you will know before you are charged.  \n\nThen once you have contacted a broker and opened an account you can start making trades. The key to success is to make an inversting strategy and follow it. A strategy can be anything, like you might buy stocks between 5-10 dollars, volumes greator than 1 million on a 3 month avg, that have recently had management changes. You then take that list of companies and choose the best one/s. You may also want to diversify by buying companies with negative correlations to decrease risk. But you can do what ever you want.\n\nFor more information call scottrade they have people sitting around that can answer any question you have about investing, even if you don't have an account.
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This is just the process for opening an account and starting to trade stocks.  Learning which stocks to trade can take years, and is way to complicated to try to explain here:\n\nTo open an account, go to a brokerage firm (like Schwab, Etrade, Scottrade; whoever) and get a form to open an account, or you could just download the form from the internet.  \n\nFill out the form, and send it to the brokerage firm (or you can drop it off at the brokerage firm).  \n\nWait for the firm to open an account for you, it won't take long and they'll send you the info when its open or you could call/ drop by their office.  \n\nNow start trading.  You would typically trade by calling the firm and telling them what to buy/ sell, or doing it over the internet.\n\nThis is a very very general explanation, but there are about 100 details you will need to decide for yourself along the way.  ie what kind of account; are you rolling an ira or something into the new account (the brokerage firm will handle this, you just fill out another form); do you want a full service broker (more expensive but gives you more advice on what to buy) discount broker (less expensive, some advice) or deep discount broker (cheap, but you are on your own in terms of what to buy); and many other details.  \n\nOf course the brokerage can help you with most of the details, but they can't teach you how to choose which stocks to buy/ sell (and quite frankly the picks given by the full service brokers may not be any better than throwing darts at a newspaper); this part takes years of trial and error to figure out - so hey, get going.  No time like the present to start.\n\nGood luck.
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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\nListening to free, off the street advice is an expressway to disaster. Read more good books and articles on investments to expand your vision and horizon before you decide to go deeper into the subject. For some of the best investment books that I have ever read, please visit http://www.bestoptiontradingbooks.com\n\nInvesting or trading the stock markets never start from asking how to buy a certain stock ... 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 market
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WAY TO GO KIDDO !!!!\n\nYou can start to read up on the stock market... read read read !!!! Email companies and request their prospectus', it is free! Read about the companies that interest you, then you can find a company that you can buy directly from them without a broker. EASY EASY !!\n\nSearch : "direct stock purchase plans" and it will get you headed in the right direction. Heck... persuade friends to learn this too !! Remember ONLY YOU can make your future SWEET !! Get started NOW!!!\n\nEvery time you go out to buy something, put that equal amount away into a jar or savings account. Once a month, once every six months or annually, take that money and put it in your stock  ((that you have done your homework on)).\n\nBest Wishes on a bright financial future!\n\n: )
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Set up an account with an online trader, send them money to invest and once the receive, start buying shares.
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As far as I know, you can only buy stocks from a broker.  If you're a beginner investor and want to invest in stocks while lessening your risk, start out by investing in stock mutual funds.  Some of those you can buy direct from the mutual fund company.  Fidelity has a large array of funds you can choose from.
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You can go to http://www.financial-planner-courses.com   It is a college, where you can get your certificate online...to become a financial planner, stockbroker, and other certificates available.  \n\nhttp://www.empirestockbroker.com....this is another schooling\n\nHope that this helps.
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To run a business, money is required. If you start a company, you can approach investors and sell them shares of your company (subject to your fulfilling various rules regulations and conditions specified per law). These shares are called stock. The platform that allows you to legally trade in these shares is a stock-exchange, where anyone eligible can buy shares through a broker or sub-broker who against a small commission trades the stock that you want to buy or sell.\n\nAs far as how to invest is concerned, it is advisable that you start by investing in good equity Mutual Funds. Test the waters, do some study of the various companies if you can, or consult a financial adviser. (I am one, You can email me your contacts and if I can, I'll get back to you)\n\nHowever, don't invest all your money in one asset class alone, spread it across various other classes such as Post Office Savings Schemes, Bank Fixed Deposits, Real Estate, Insurance, Government Bonds, and directly equity once you are confident that you understand the market. Each and every person has his or her own financial needs and hence specifically defining the amount to be invested would be difficult unless the your current status is known.\n\nTaxation is another important aspect that needs looking into. Please do include your taxation liabilities in your financial planing otherwise you could end up with a lot of trouble with the taxman.
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Go to a website like www.scottrade.com or www.etrade.com and they we tell you what you need to do to set up an online account to trade stock.
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talk to a stockbroker who is a 144 specialist
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legally you have to be 18. But you could buy stocks at any age as long as it is on the internet and an adult must be a custodian of that account.
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find an internship at a bank or financial institution and set aside $100 to invest in the stock market, but just one stok here one there (after you have researched your options) and you will learn alot tracking your own money -- make a few picks on what you would do if you had $10,000 to invest and follow that "pretend" portfolio too\n\nalso recommend suze orman books
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First of all you must open a DEMAT Account either with a Bank or with a Broker.\nThen start applying in IPOs till you get some good knowledge of how share market actually works (very soon you will learn that share market doesn't work much on fundamentals but on speculation).\nAnd start buying shares of blue chip companies only, as the mid caps and small caps are more volatile, and entering market without knowledge can be highly dangerous and risky.
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Its going to be very difficult these days.\nThe best way around the system is to open a trading account with an online stock broker, its just like a bank a/c, you can deposit/transfer and they even give you a ATM/debit card, and don't have to buy any stock or trade, nor go through the hassles of opening a bank a/c due to Patriot Act.\ncheck out www.etrade.com or similar co.\nGood Luck