You select the stock you wish to own and place your order with the brokerage either by phone or online electronically. The brokerage makes the trade for you, usually within seconds.
The shares that you buy are kept on file at the brokerage. Many companies no longer issue certificates for shares but keep track electronically.
When and if your company issues a dividend, it goes directly to your account.
You can get more information at their websites.
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First thing is you are dealing/competing with liars, con artist, supercomputers, rocket scientist etc.
2nd is executives/directors generally ripoff company, stockholders, workers, buyers so much now days that stocks are pretty much ponzi scheme without real value such as 3% dividend. Things like sears, kmart, GM etc went BANKRUPT.
1) open brokerage account(similar to bank)
2) buy index fund mutual fund (with expectation that risk is 30% below price you bought it)
3) expect most stocks have potential to lose 80-90% of value
4) I would expect oil prices to sky rocket rest of our life.
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