How does one buy US shares?

PaddyofNine

There's this US company, listed on the DOW over there, that I have my eye on. Shares have taken a bit of a tumble, and I happen to have some spare cash lying around, am pretty confident it's gonna rise again and wouldn't mind throwing down €3k on it.

Questions, though!

(A) Is there a limited amount of shares that each of these companies have? i.e. if the volume of trading is up on the company, will it be hard for me to buy shares/

(B) How would I go about it? Never traded before, say I wanted to have €3,000 worth of said company's shares in my pocket by Friday of this week (gotta move quick!) how would do it?

hmmm

Any Irish stockbroker should be able to buy the shares for you. Shop around though, they can charge hefty fees (and watch out for annual account fees). A bank will also arrange to buy them through a stockbroker, might as well ask them too.

Some of the smaller companies will have a hefty bid/offer spread if they are lightly traded. A company listed on the Dow though will have a small spread and will be easy to trade.

Not to put a downer on things, but those of us who have in the past have invested in what we thought were "sure things" have often been left down - if this 3k is money you can't afford to lose if things go wrong, don't buy individual shares would be my advice.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Don't want to state the obvious, but you better not be buying these shares in response to a pump and dump email you received!!;)

PDelux

What's the company? I'll take a look.

dunkamania

watch out for the falling dollar