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How to buy US shares?

19driver83 · 2012-02-04 20:28:00

Id like to learn the best way to buy US shares. I have never done any share dealing in the past. The AIB share dealing appears easy to use but the charges they apply are very high. I downloaded the sharewatch demo but seems difficult to use and understand and appears to be purely for currency exchange?:confused: I would…

04-02-2012 8:28pm

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19driver83

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Id like to learn the best way to buy US shares. I have never done any share dealing in the past.

The AIB share dealing appears easy to use but the charges they apply are very high.

I downloaded the sharewatch demo but seems difficult to use and understand and appears to be purely for currency exchange?

I would only be looking to invest approx. 5K into 2-3 companies. Would I be better off just going to a bank or stockbroker?

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#2 05-02-2012 3:47pm

neris

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Zecco.com easy to sign up with and they do all the us markets. Only issue with them is an intl money transfer can take few days to reach your account

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