Okay so we've talked about what a share is and how you make money from them And at this point you've probably got a few questions like how much money you need to get started or how risky is buying shares in a company And I promise we're going to get to that But point number six is how the hell do you buy a share in the first place And this is where it can kind of get complicated because it's not as simple as going on apple.com forward slash buy and just buying a share in Apple It doesn't quite work like that Instead you have to go through what's called a broker And back in the day a stockbroker was a physical person usually a dude who you would call on the phone and say Hey Bob I want to place an order for some shares in Apple And then Bob would type some stuff into his computer or place like a paper order And then you would own shares in Apple Thankfully these days we don't really have to talk to Bob because there's loads and loads of online brokers instead And so you make an account on an online broker and then you can buy shares in a company through that a bit annoyingly every different country has their own different brokers to operate in that country Because to be an online broker in a country you have to abide by like a zillion different laws.
