Stock Market newie, any advice?

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I have briefly looked into the stock Market before but don't know how to get started. I won't start until I am confident I know what I am doing, but I want to start as soon as possible. How do I buy and sell the shares, through a stock exchange? If so, what one would anyone recommend? And also, if I research the company's stock price history and buy low, they should eventually rise shouldn't they? If they are a solid business I mean. And how would i know if they are about to rise? (not asking for an easy answer here) I mean what do you research into to find how the price of the stocks is going to go?

And also how much money is the minimum you should really put down? Because I know if you put to little, fee's eat up your money.

I hope I have made some sense but as I am not too confident with understanding stock prices I am pretty useless and would really appreciate anybodys answers or input. Thanks.

Thrugelmir

Start with a collective investment vehicle such as one of the large general Investment Trusts. All the main fund managers offer low cost regular savings schemes. A good way of building a core cornerstone for a share portfolio.

Then spend your time reading up on share investing.

malc_b

Motley Fool looked at this I recall. Over the long term investing in the cheapest cost tracker out performed 9 out 10 funds.

The logic behind this is that everyone is guessing really, unless they have insider info and are crooks :-). So over the long term most funds don't beat the average. Then add on the extra fees and most then under perform a simple, cheap, tracker which just tracks the average (i.e. FTSE 100 or FSTE 250, or FSTE all).