Visit a discount broker like Charles Schwab, Scott Trade, or TDAmeritrade. Each probably has a paper money trading account. You can learn the process and access research articles. Many brokerages have in house training course they offer for people they employ. Talk to someone in the business to get your start.

You need a minimum of $500, and $1000+ at most.

How long do you think you would last @ $9.95 a trade, and nearly 20 bucks per round trip?? Are your stock picks going to overcome this huge drag.

You could try share builder. They may have no minimum.

Too litle for direct investment.

If you want to gamble this money and can afford to lose it all and don't like horses or casinos then I would use CFDs, Spread Betting or Options. You WILL lose all your money but might have a bit of fun. How come you have read many books but not learned anything??

get a loan for a couple grand, start up the trading account, extend your leverage to the max, buy mercedes benz or three; repeat again next month.

Save more money and then get an online account

Hi, how's it going. I'm an 18 year old just out highschool and have read many books about trading stocks during my senior year, now I want in. I have a couple of hundreds I've saved, how do I start trading online? I've tried joing a couple of different sites but the minimum amount i could have was in the thousands, I only have a couple of hundreds. Thanks for the advice and help!