| we discuss how a person can buy shares online, we | | | | stock brokers or stock trading companies. The same |
| are going review what shares are. Shares can be | | | | limitation applies to online share trading. |
| described as a part of a company that a person is | | | | You need to look for an online broker or an online |
| given to own. Shares represent a certain part of that | | | | share trading company so that you can buy shares |
| company or organization. The total number of shares | | | | online. The reason behind share trading is to make a |
| available determines the percentage each share | | | | profit. When you buy shares online, you should buy |
| represents in that particular company or organization. | | | | them when the shares for a particular company are |
| For example, if a company is worth one million dollars | | | | at a low. Once you have bought them, you should |
| and has ten thousand shares in total, each share | | | | wait until they start climbing before you consider |
| represents one hundred dollars. Share trading is | | | | selling them. |
| normally done in the stock markets. In previous | | | | It would be fruitless to buy shares online when they |
| years, people used to buy shares through a stock | | | | are at their peak, because, when you sell them, their |
| broker, who had to physically make this transaction | | | | price will be lower; therefore, you will lose money. |
| on the floor of a stock exchange. | | | | The whole point of buying shares online is that you |
| Today, however, technology has made the trading | | | | can instruct your broker to buy shares of a particular |
| of shares an online thing. This means that a person | | | | company that you have been studying when you are |
| can buy shares online. The process is not that | | | | sure that, after a short while, the share price will |
| complicated: all one needs to be able to buy shares | | | | climb. |
| online is an internet connection and a valid credit card. | | | | When you buy shares online, you have the |
| These are the first steps that people have to take | | | | advantage of getting access to shares from |
| so that they can buy shares online. | | | | international markets. In the past, before people |
| The next step would be to look for an online stock | | | | could buy shares, they had to go to the country |
| broker who is able to sell and buy shares online. The | | | | where the company they wanted to invest in was |
| reason for getting a stock broker is the fact that a | | | | situated. However, with the present technology, you |
| single individual cannot trade shares directly. In every | | | | can buy shares online of any company without |
| part of the world, share trading is done through | | | | traveling to that destination. |