When you sell a losing STOCK, who buys it?

when you realize your stock is losing money repeatedly and want to sell it, does the leftover money get paid back from the company that you invested in? or does it come from somewhere else? are you guaranteed to be able to get whatever is leftover returned back to you?

i've never invested in stocks before but i am interested in reading and learning about how everything works, and may possibly want to invest through a company such as Charles Schwab or Fidelity.

any other advice you have would be much appreciated, such as where to begin, etc.

Check out etrade. It is fairly simple and all of your investments are insured. If you have a losing stock which you will have both win and lose... you then put in an order to sell it. It will not sell until someone puts in a bid to buy. The easiest way to keep up with the changes is to put in buy and sell orders.Say you see a stock that you are interested in and you want to buy some, but you want it for a little less. You then put in a buy order for the price you want and when it drops to that price it will automatly buy if someone is selling. With that same stock say you want to double your money. Put in a sell order for the price you want and it will be an automatic sell when it gets to that price. The mutual funds seem to be the best bet. Also long term stocks ( The big companies).
Happy Investing!

1. You sell it to someone that thinks they're getting a good price. That could be another retail investor (like yourself), a company, an institution (like a retirement fund, mutual fund, city, state etc.).

2. Read as much as you can. It will save you thousands of dollars over your life time.

3. Schwab and Fidelity are great choices for the new investor.

Lesson #1: Always have an "exit plan" before you buy a stock. Stick to it. Set a "stop loss" with your broker.

You sell your stock on the open market...The company has nothing to do with it.
If someone feels that they would rather have your stock, than the money asked, they will trade their money for your stock....if not , you will have to lower your price to where this will happen.

the company got their money when the stock was issued,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they are out of the picture.......
you want to sell.....someone wants to buy........different prices.....nothing happens till one of you changes their price.................the exchange is where this happens.......

Usually some other investor buys the stock that you sell.

Nobody knows future stock prices. And there is always someone who thinks that the stock might go up in price later on.

But you have to be careful about trading low volume stocks of very small companies. Not many investors are interested in buying stocks of these companies. And you might not be able to sell shares of such a company as quickly as you would be able to sell shares of a larger company.

And of course the reason why you might want to sell quickly is to cut your losses when the stock price is going down.

I suggest you learn a little about the stock market at
http://www.investopedia.com/Default.aspx...

You can also open an account and practice trading stocks for free at this website:
http://simulator.investopedia.com/?viewe...