I thought about having fidelity to get me started at buying stock. I have been following some stocks for months. But im just beggining...so are mutual funds really the best to start with? im just looking for the simple thing; invest in cent stocks, where i can ONLY lose the money i already invested and at the same time learn. can someone give me a solid example of sotck they bought, what they had to pay for, what to do to get a broker, everything prettty much. I need to know step by step. thank you

First its not a good idea to piggyback your question on someone elses. This can lead to confusion. You should start a new thread. So I've moved your question to its own thread.

Mutual funds can be a good place to start, especially if one hasn't too much money to invest. Mutual Funds are generally targeted to a type of investment and the assets held can be somewhat diversified.