I am very novice in stocks. I play a little with buying stocks I think will perform after doing research, so I don't throw a lot of money at it at least not now. I was using Sharebuilder back in the day, they were sold to ING, who was then sold to capital one. All of those let me buy 1 or two stocks at a time if I want. Recently Etrade bought them, and it seems like I am required to now buy 100 shares at a time unless I do a limit and hope someone will sell me one share... Are there any sites that are more like share builder where I can purchase very low quantities of stocks at a time?
Robinhood allows you to purchase low quantitities if you like and has NO trading fees so that seems right up your alley.