Ok, so you have money and you want to start investing it into something that has potential and something that is relatively safe. Something like the stock market for instance. But how do you go about buying stocks? Can anyone buy a stock?
Well yes. As long as you are over the age of 18 and have money to invest you can start buying stocks in any company that you wish. To do so you just need to open up a brokerage account with a major broker. This is just like opening up a bank account, but it is wise to do your research beforehand to avoid getting into brokers that charge high fees.
Brokers will allow you to buy and sell any stock online in an instant, making it fast and easy. This leads to another question, how many shares do I have to buy?
In short you can buy as many or as little shares as you want. There is no limit, but brokers will charge a small fee to buy and sell positions, so if your broker charges $5 to buy a stock then buying 1 share for $10 isn’t going to make much sense buy buying 10 shares for $100 might.