i would like to buy some stocks of a public company. how can i buy these shares. do you have to know any broker personally or just go online and  buy them?

 

 

 

goto etrade.com or similar sites.. .

but etrade.com is about to go bankrupt so watchout.

Latoboy with some lameazz lato comment there.  Did you even do some resonable researcg before recommending the post that just came outta yo azz??  E-Trade is down and low in the dumps and their charges are unreasonably high just because they were among the pioneers of the online trading biz.  Kale, use scottrade instead as they, as far as I know are the ones with the lowest spread/commissions out there (which means more money in your pocket.  As the old adage goes: Money saved is...).

The last two comments, they're both baised in their own ways. E-trade, scottrade, they all the same, some charge more, some charge less, some have more features, some have less.

Kalo bhale, the only thing I can tell you is start reading financial websites and journals. Here are a few:

finance.yahoo.com

reuters.com

Wall Street Journal

Read those, become knowledgeable about the markets and comfortable about investments. Once you know how to analyze companies, you'll automatically start researching on which broker is right for you. You can go with the big banks(who may charge fees but provide a lot of analysis and reccomendations) or with direct Access Brokers that charge minimal fees, but you'll have to rely on your own judgement.

Good luck.

TT