Buy Your First Stock! Here's How

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🗓️ 14 April 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Are you ready? (We have a checklist.) Which broker should you use? What companies should you buy? When should you pull the trigger? How many shares? What about selling? Listen up and check out our new Guide to Investing for Beginners.

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0:00.0	This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Allison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Deanna
0:08.7	Yocum and Robert Brokamp. Hi guys. Hello. Hello, Allison. How are we feeling this week?
0:14.0	We're great. Look at Robert's shirt. Yeah, everyone on the podcast. Look at my shirt.
0:20.2	Look at your shirt. I, I, it took me a minute. So it's the periodic table featuring HG. Anyone, anyone, anyone, atomic weight of 80. And then what the giveaway here is the sergeant pepperish looking gold jacket. Anyone? It's a t-shirt about Freddie Mercury.
0:37.8	Singer, lead singer.
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:39.3	It's clever.
0:40.2	It's funny.
0:41.0	It's my favorite t-shirt, I have to say.
0:42.8	Yeah.
0:43.3	Yes, we will rock you.
0:44.7	So, yeah, so we're getting off to a quick start here on the show today,
0:48.2	talking about Rose T-shirt.
0:50.8	I'm just going to do Queen songs throughout the podcast. I think they'll find that very helpful in today's discussion, so I'm glad that's what
0:57.6	you're bringing to the table.
0:59.5	So we receive a lot of mail about how to buy your first stock.
1:03.6	It can seem intimidating, but we're here to walk you through it step by step.
1:08.0	And by the end of the show, young grasshopper, you'll know if you're financially
1:11.8	ready to invest. You'll also know how to choose a broker and even what to look for in
1:16.2	a stock. Think of us like your own investing, Mr. Miyagi, and we aren't even going to make
1:22.0	you wax our car.
1:23.0	Oh, I was totally thinking wax on my shop.
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