If you know what stocks you want to purchase Sharebuilder or any one of the other discount brokers you can find on a Google search. If you want someone to give you ideas or suggestions on what to buy you will pay more than $1000 is worth in commissions and fees. Do the research on the stock yourself and buy through a discount broker.

If you are over 18 you'll open an account with Schwab, Scottrade, ETrade etc or whoever with your $1,000. Phone them to get their

Costs and procedure. Scottrade charges $7.00 per trade. You'll probably want to trade online without a broker. If you want a broker to trade for you it'll be much more costly. Most online traders do it themselves.

fidelity or schwab is fine.

account usually requires $2500 to open.

Look at beaten down blue chip stocks which pay dividends, and reinvest the dividends if you can possibly afford to do so. Maybe consider UTX, CL

I've been wanting to invest around 1000 dollars and I want to invest in 1 or 2 companies. I would like to have a broker that charges little per stock bought. I'm planning on keeping the stocks for probably a couple years. What website is best for this?