How to Buy Stock Online Immediately

Sign up for an account through an on-line brokerage company. There are links to 'E*TRADE,' 'ShareBuilder' and 'Zecco' below, but there are many more to choose from. Click 'Sign Up,' and follow the prompts to complete your registration.
Transfer money into the brokerage account. This will normally take one business day to be processed and appear in your account.
Once the money has posted to your account, find the ticker symbol of the stock you want to buy on the site's research page. Once you know the symbol, go to your site's quotes page, type in the symbol and click 'Get Quote,' or your site's equivalent.
Select 'Buy' once the quote comes up. Select the amount of shares you would like to purchase. Then you will be asked if you would like to place a market order or a limit order. With a limit order, you set the exact price you want to pay. A market order buys the stock at the price sellers are asking at the moment.
Confirm the trade when your site asks you to, and in a moment you will receive a notification that your trade was accepted or declined. Your trade will usually only be declined if you do not have enough funds to cover it.

How to Invest in Rice on the Stock Market

Open a brokerage account that will allow you to trade futures, options and stocks (see Resources below for suggestions).
Buy an options or futures contract on rice. The ticker symbol for rice is ZR. You will need a minimum margin of $2,430 for a futures contract and $250 for an options contract.
Enter the ticker symbol into the brokerage software and click on 'Search.' This will bring up a list of rice-related products and their contract dates.
Select the month of the contract that you wish to purchase and the price that you wish to buy it at under the “Limit” price. Click on “Buy” or “Submit Order.” When the price of the contract is reached, the software will automatically purchase the contract.



Buy a stock or exchange traded fund (ETF). Since rice producers are not publicly traded companies you cannot purchase their stock directly. You can, however, buy the stock of companies related to the production of rice.
Buy stock from companies that make pesticides and seed-related products related to rice. You can research these types of companies at MarketWatch.com or Morningstar.com.
Buy an exchange traded fund (ETF). These are funds that invest in several different, but related companies for diversification. There are several agricultural ETFs that you can consider. These include the ELEMENTS Rogers International Commodity fund (NYSE: RJA), the iPath DJ AIG Agriculture Fund (NYSE: JJA) and the PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF (NYSE: DBA).

How to Calculate Stock Worth

Determine the ticker symbol for the stock in which you are interested. There are numerous websites that provide the ticker symbol when you type the name of the company into a web form.
Enter the ticker symbol into a website that offers stock quotes. The quote that the website returns is the price of one share of that stock as of that moment unless a time delay is specified.
Multiply the price of one share by the number of shares you own, and the result is the worth of your position in that stock.

How to Read a Stock Quote (9 Steps)

Locate the abbreviated name of the company. The abbreviation usually appears in the third column ('Stock').
Look at the 52-week high ('Hi'). This is the highest price anyone has paid for the stock in the past year, and it appears in the first column.
Find the 52-week low ('Low'). This is the lowest price paid for the stock in the past year. The figure appears in the second column.
Note the ticker symbol. This symbol, used by the stock exchange to identify the company, appears in the fourth column.
Check the dividend and yield figures that appear in the fifth and sixth columns. 'Div' is the amount of cash that would be paid to shareholders yearly based on the most recent quarterly payment. 'Yld' is the cash dividend divided by the closing price of the stock.
Review the 'PE' figure that appears in the sixth column. The price-earnings ratio is calculated by dividing the closing price by earnings for the past four quarters combined. This provides a way to compare stock values.
Note the seventh column, 'Vol.,' which shows how many shares of the stock changed hands the previous business day.
Glance at the eighth and ninth columns, which show the highest ('Hi') price and the lowest ('Lo') price paid for the stock on that day.
Read the last two columns to find out the price at which the stock closed for the day ('Close') and the net change ('Net chg') from the day before.

How to Buy Kroger Stock (5 Steps)

Go to your favorite investment research site for a quote. Popular investment research sites include Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, and MSN Money. While each website has its strengths and weaknesses, stock quotes for Kroger will be the same. The ticker symbol (exchange symbol) is KR. Input KR into the quote box for a current market price for the stock.
Research the stock on the investor relations section of the company's website. This website has contact information and stock price data as well. You can email Kroger's investor relations department at kroger.investors@kroger.com or call at 513-762-4366.
Determine the price at which you would like purchase Kroger stock by looking at the price chart over the past three years. This will help you to track highs and lows in stock prices. The goal is to buy low and sell high.
Determine how many shares you would like to purchase. If you have $5,000 to invest you can divide $5,000 by the current share price for Kroger for the maximum number of shares you can afford.
Place an order with your broker at BNY Mellon. BNY Mellon is the transfer agent and registrar for Kroger stock. You may be able to pay lower commissions if you purchase your Kroger shares through a BNY Mellon account (if you have one). If you do not have an account with BNY Mellon, place an order with your personal broker or through an online broker.

How to Read Stock Quotes Online From Yahoo! Finance

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 stock's ticker symbol into the box.
Click the 'Get Quotes' button.
Look at the gray bar across the top of the page with the name of your stock appearing in large black letters. The current price quote for that stock will be in large black numbers directly across from the stock name.
Spot the arrow next to the current price of the stock. If the arrow is green and pointing upward, the stock price is trading up by the amount shown next to the green arrow. However, if the arrow is red and pointing down, the stock price is trading down by the amount show next to the red arrow.

How to Buy a Share of Apple Stock

Call your brokerage firm or log into your online brokerage account. Keep in mind that investing with a broker can be more expensive than performing the stock purchase on your own via an online account.
Search for the Apple, Inc. ticker (APPL) to see the most recent quote.
Calculate the number of shares you can afford to purchase and include the transactions fees that your brokerage firm will assess to complete the transaction.
Determine your brokerage account balance that can be applied to a stock purchase. If you do have the funds to cover the purchase price of the shares you want to buy, transfer the funds into your account. Follow your account's instructions for completing a fund transfer. Remember that funds may not always be available immediately.
Execute a stock purchase. To purchase using an online brokerage account, enter the ticker symbol of Apple, Inc. (APPL) and the number of shares you want to purchase.
Print out the stock purchase receipt for online accounts or have your broker send you confirmation of the purchase. Keep purchase confirmations with your financial records.