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Buying and selling in the stock markets

Buying and selling in the stock markets

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Buying and selling in the stock markets

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- [Instructor] If you're going to invest in stocks, you'll need to understand how buying and selling stocks works. So I'm here on E-Trade's brokerage page. Now there's a variety of different brokers that you can use to help you buy and sell stocks. Brokers include groups like E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and many others that are out there. We're using E-Trade simply because they have a nice convenient platform for learning purposes. Now I've put in Apple's stock. The ticker symbol AAPL is up here and represents Apple. If I wanted to buy or sell Apple stock, I would click on one of these buttons and it would take me to a page that looks like this one. So here I am ready to put in my order. If I want to buy Apple stock, I have two choices. I could either use a market order or a limit order. A market order simply means that I'm going to put in my order for Apple stock and I will pay…

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