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Originally posted by Hay2bale:
You can walk into a Schwab office with your checkbook and start an account. Then sign up for one line trading on your computer at home. They have a bunch of educational videos to answer any specific questions.

honestly that would probably be the simplest thing

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You need a Brokerage account. Almost every financial services company will offer one. Find one with free online trades. They are pretty common.

Next step is to deposit money.

Once you have done that, what are you going to buy? Why are you buying it? And when are you going to sell it?

It is easy to set up an account and buy stock. Actually being an investor is much harder.

Robinhood is changing the brokerage world.

Unfortunately, it is having growing pains.

It is like Amazon in its early days.

I still use them

I've had an eTrade account for 20 years, super easy to use with free trades.