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Buying Penny
Stocks
Two Ways to Enter Your Trades: Computer or Telephone
So, you have decided that you want to buy some shares of ABC.
You need to know the following details for your order to proceed:
1. The ticker symbol of the stock.
(In this case, ABC). You may also need to know the name of the
company, which is ABC Corporation for the purposes of our example.
2. The market which the stock is trading on.
In our example, we will say that ABC trades on the AMEX.
3. The number of shares you want to buy.
This is referred to as 'volume' of shares. We will say that
you have $3,500 in available cash in your trading account, but only want to
spend about $1,500 on this stock. The most recent trading price was around $0.50
per share.
Thus, you would probably want to order 3,000 shares (which would
total $1,500 before commissions, assuming you bought at $0.50).
4. Market or Limit price?
Be sure to review his full description of the types
of trade orders.
If you choose market, you do not know what price you will pay
for shares, but you will be assured that the trade will go through.
Alternatively, you can set a limit price. I will say $0.60 for
our example, meaning that you will pay $0.60 or less for each share.
If there is insufficient selling below that price you may wind
up getting none or only a fraction of the shares you wanted. You feel that ABC
has good daily trading volume, and since your order is small, and your limit
price is a 20% premium to the last traded price, you feel confident that your
order will be filled.
As well, when you got a recent quote on ABC you saw that there
were 9.0 lots for sale at $0.50, which equals 9,000 shares currently being offered
at $0.50.
In that scenario, your limit order to buy 3,000 shares at $0.60
would result in a purchase of 3,000 shares at $0.50.
5. Decide on the duration of your order.
Market orders do not require a duration, because since you are
willing to take the best available price, your order will be instantly filled
when it hits the trading floor.
Limit orders do require a duration, and you will get an additional
brokerage commission every day that a part of that order gets filled. To buy
3,000 ABC over 3 days (assuming you only got 1,000 each day at your limit price)
would triple your total commission cost. You decide that you want to guarantee
to only pay one commission, so you make the order good for the day. This is
called a 'day order.'
You can also choose to keep the order open for days or weeks
at a time.
6. Total Cost
Know the total costs you would have to pay. Take into account
commissions.
You are now ready to enter your order to buy 3,000 ABC shares
on the AMEX at $0.60, good for the day.
We highly recommend that if you have the option, do your very
first trade order on the phone with a live broker. Even though most brokerages
will charge a slightly higher commission for this service, they will catch any
errors you might have made, and can answer any questions. As well, some brokers
will even be able to tell you if your order was filled (for market orders only)
while you wait right there on the phone.
Tell them that it is your first order, and they will most likely
be extra helpful.
Open Order:
Until your order expires (at the end of the duration you have
set), or is filled (3,000 shares of ABC have been bought), your order is considered
'open.'
Monitor your open orders. You should be able to check these
quite if you have an online brokerage account. Watch to see how many
shares you have gotten and what price you paid.
If at the end of the trading day you have acquired 2,500 of
3,000 shares, and your order was good for two days, you may want to cancel the
rest of the 500 that the order calls for. This will help you avoid paying a
second commission, in case the other 500 get bought the next day.
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