How to Sell Stock Without a Broker

Transfer stock in lieu of cash donations to any charity you are gifting. Besides the tax advantage of giving appreciated stock to a charity, most brokerage houses charge charities little or nothing for gifted stock. If the stock is in physical form, merely sign the transfer power on the back of the certificate. For stock held by the broker, the charity will have instructions for you to follow.
Find a buyer for your stock---a family friend, neighbor or relative. It will be necessary to contact the transfer agent to have the stock transferred into the purchasing party's name. Use the stock price as of a certain date as the trade date, so there will be no disagreement among the parties as to the trade amount. Be certain there are no dividend payments pending, and if so, they should be paid to the selling party.
Use DRIP programs where possible. DRIP or dividend reinvestment plans allow you to buy as little as one share of stock from a participating member or a broker and then arrange for all dividends to be paid in the form of additional shares. Not all stocks have such a program, but the stocks that do tend to be large dividend-paying stocks. Shares can then be sold to plan participants, allowing the investor to pay no commissions for either buying or selling stock.
When making large purchases, use stock and sign the stock over to the buyer. He can sell the stock at his expense when he is ready. You avoid the commission and the buyer receives secure funds through ownership of the stock certificate.
Sell stock through an in-the-money covered call. This means writing an option below the current stock price. The premium paid by the call buyer to you, the seller, will more than cover the commissions for the option and the stock sale. This is a popular method used by large institutions to move large quantities of stock.

How to Make Money Daytrading the Stock Market

Look up the price chart for the stock. Visually, volatility is shown by the sharp up and down angles on a stock price chart. The sharper the angles, the higher the volatility. You can look this up on your favorite investment research site such as Google Finance, Yahoo! Finance, or MSN Money; you can call the Investor Relations Department for the company to request a price chart; you can go to to the company's website to check for investor presentations; or, you can contact your stock broker. As a day trader you are primarily concerned with daily price charts.
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Obtain the beta for the company. Beta is a measure of volatility and can be used in the same way as the price chart is used -- to find companies with highly volatile stock pricing. You can also obtain the beta for the company from investment research websites, the company website, company Investor Relations or your stock broker. The further the beta is away from 0, the more volatile the stock.
Select three highly-volatile stocks in terms of beta as well as their price charts. Beta can help to find the stocks, but the price charts allow you to study stock patters.
Track these stocks over one month. Look for daily patterns in the price chart. Patterns may emerge in early morning trading hours or after market news. See if you can predict the price movements before they occur.
Make buy or sell decisions based on daily highs and lows in the stock. Since you've been tracking the stock over the past month, you know the natural support (bottom) and resistance (top) levels of the price chart. Buy the stock when it hits a bottom and sell the stock when it hits a top.