Trading stocks and shares for dummies
When you've been approved for margin stock trading, you're also eligible to short stock. Almost every successful stock trader has shorted stock at one time or another. When you short stock, you make money when the company's shares fall—or, even better yet, when they crash. The problem is that you can expose yourself to unlimited liability when you do this. Select the stock name you want and you are given an indicative price quote, normally in pence per share. Then you choose the amount you want to spend, and deal. You'll get a real-time quote and have around 15 seconds to execute the deal. The money is cleared from your online account. Shares go up in price, and also down. If you buy shares at a high price and the market falls, you may lose money. But if you buy more shares and the price goes up, you’ll make money on the sharemarket. ‘Get rich slow’ should be the share investor’s motto.