How to Start Online Stock Trading (7 Steps)

Pick an online discount broker. There are dozens of online brokers on the web, but finding one that fits your needs can be a challenge. Do your research, find which broker fits your specifics needs as well as possible, and then open your account.
Complete the registration process. You will be required to give all of the relevant information, such as your name, social security number, address, and other information the brokerage site will ask you for.
Fund your trading account. You can send in a handwritten check, or transfer the money through a wire transfer (with a fee) or a slower ACH transaction (free but takes three or more days).
Mail in the required paperwork (and funds) to the address provided by your online broker. It may take up to 7 days to process your account.
Complete the remaining registration process. Trading passwords, PIN numbers, and other security measures may be involved but takes only minutes to complete. Never share these with anyone, but it is wise to write them down at your home or office just in case you forget them.
Acquaint yourself with the menus and trading screens your broker has created for you. Take their online tutorial or watch any 'beginning investor' videos they site may have prepared to expedite your learning curve.
Buy your first stock. Choose the company you want to invest in, input the stock symbol it trades under, input the amount of shares you want to buy, and click 'Execute.'

How to Get Your Company on the Stock Exchange

Hire an investment bank. Examples of reputable investment banks are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley; however, others are available to do the same work. The investment bank increases the chances of your company appearing on the stock market because they are able to create more appeal and get the paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) done more efficiently.
Meet with the bank and go over details about what type of security you're going to offer (stock) and the amount of money that you ultimately want to raise. It's during this meeting that you and the bank will decide if the bank will provide a firm commitment or a best efforts agreement. A firm commitment is when they guarantee the sale of a certain amount of securities. A best efforts agreement is where the bank sells the stock but doesn't make any guarantees on the amount sold.
Draft the registration statement for the SEC. They are the deciding factor on whether your stock can go on the market. The SEC will review financial statements, management background, legal problems (if any exist), what the money will be used for, and insider holdings.
Put together the red herring. While the SEC is processing your registration, go around with the investment banker trying to create hype in the stock. At the time, you don't know when the release date is, but you try to sell the stock to investors before it even hits the market so that it starts off strong and the price can rise faster.
Pick a price for the stock. Because the ultimate goal is to make the most money, the higher you start, the more you'll make per share. However, the investment bank and you can figure out exactly how much to charge per share so that you maximize the amount of money coming in.
Track the stock on the market. It will fluctuate up and down, but as shares are sold, the money will be given to the company so that it can further invest it to make the company stronger.

How to Buy CCL Stock (5 Steps)

Create a stock trading account with an online broker, such as Zecco or Sharebuilder. Personal data, such as date of birth, social security number and address, are needed to open the account.
Input the routing number and account number for the checking account you want to use to fund the new stock trading account. This will link the checking account to the trading account.
Wait two to four days for two deposits from Zecco to appear in the linked checking account. Confirm the amounts of the deposits in Zecco once they appear in the checking account. This enables the account for funding.
Fund the trading account by transferring in money from the linked checking account to the trading account. It takes two business days for the money to be available for trading.
Click on 'Trading' and then 'Trading Center' in your Zecco account. Enter in the quantity of shares you want to buy, the CCL symbol and click 'Preview Order.' If everything is correct click 'Buy' and the shares of CCL stock will be purchased immediately.

How to Predict the Stock Index (3 Steps)

Choose the indices that you would like to follow. Monitor the price levels and volume levels of each index to watch for breakouts. Determine the resistance and support levels of the index for the period of time appropriate to your trading time frame. The resistance level is determined as a maximum price level that has been reached three times or more but not exceeded during a given period of time. The support level is calculated in a similar way, but at the minimum price level. If the price of a security exceeds the resistance or support levels, it's called a 'breakout' and indicates the possible beginning of a trend.
Trade breakout levels accordingly for the index you're trying to predict. If a resistance level is breached, you may wish to buy an index fund or index exchange-traded fund (ETF) that provides broad exposure to that index. If the support level is breached significantly, you may want to short-sell one of those funds.
Protect your investment in an index fund by using stop-loss orders. Trends can persist for long periods of time, but historically, most of them encounter re-tracements or reversals. For example, the Nikkei 225 of Japan experienced a high of more than 20,000 in the year 2000. In 2009, it remained at the 10,000 level, although it managed to reach a high of approximately 18,000 in 2007. Even strong trends are prone to eventual reversals.