Stock

Find the stock symbols of the company or companies you want to follow through any of the following websites: MSN money central, investors.co...

Decide if you want to use a traditional brokerage to buy stock in Walt Disney Co. or open a direct stock purchase plan. Buying stock through...

Find the closing share price of a stock for the current day and the previous day on a financial website, such as Yahoo! Finance, Google Fina...

Open a brokerage account that will allow you to trade futures, options and stocks (see Resources below for suggestions). Buy an options or f...

Identify the ticker for your stock exchange. Financial websites and television stations may have multiple scrolling tickers. Business televi...

Log in to the ShareBuilder website (sharebuilder.com). If you don't have a username, then you need to register. You'll need to provi...

Determine the ticker symbol for the stock in which you are interested. There are numerous websites that provide the ticker symbol when you t...

Sign up with a stock broker if you have not done so already. It is recommended to review all of the terms and specifics of each company befo...

Locate the abbreviated name of the company. The abbreviation usually appears in the third column ('Stock'). Look at the 52-week high...

Go to your favorite investment research site for a quote. Popular investment research sites include Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, and MSN ...

Go to the Yahoo! Finance Web site (see Resources section). Find the 'Get Quotes' box at the top left of the home page. Type in your ...

Create a list of acronyms for stocks in your portfolio to help you read stock market reports. You should update this list every time you mak...

Compile a list of the stocks that you currently own and those that you have interest in purchasing. It is almost impossible to monitor and t...

Open a stock brokerage account and fund it with the amount of money you want to invest in Southwest Airline stock. You can do this in an exi...