Buying US shares from the UK: verify the firm, product and costs first
If you are in the United Kingdom and want to research shares listed in the United States, you will need to find out what type of financial services company you can use to purchase these shares, whether they are permitted to sell you these shares, how to tell if you are buying directly into the share itself or a product based on the share (such as a CFD), what the overall cost of buying the share (and selling it) would be including currency exchange fees, and finally, what your options are regarding taxes on such purchases. Just because a stock is listed in the U.S. doesn’t mean you can buy it with any UK account.