Stocks Getting Started

I have never invested in anything but index funds, how I can start working on individual "actions?
I'm branching intéressée a bit now that my portfolio is a bit more mature. Do not even know how to get started in buying individual "actions, however.
Why? If you think about it, about 90% of equity funds was exceeded by the rates! Maybe I could "satisfy their desire to" individual "Populations" by purchasing one or more of the ETF "index tracking stocks" as SPY, DIA, QQQ, etc … It is a very idea of only one or two actions, unless that's just "virtual money" because of the nature of the individual "companies, whether to celebrate individual" names must "own enough different ones you have" insurance "against a great loss if a company is the continuation of Enron, Global Crossing, or what whatever … Best wishes. Full Disclosure: I do not practice what I preach necessarilly, LOL, "at any given time, since I do own oven only five individual" Normally gold stocks I have to sacrifice some of the Dogs of the Dow "…
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