1. Buy Bitcoins at https://coinbase.com/ (takes 4-5 business days and goes by the market rate of when the check clears.. uses echeck)
2. Send Bitcoins to your https://btc-e.com/ account
3. Trade for Litecoins
4. Send to cold storage (https://liteaddress.org/ or a physical litecoin https://www.cryptovest.com)
Don't store coins on the exchange. If you don't want to use cold sotrage, store them on your computer and make sure your wallet is backed up and encrypted & your anti virus updated.
This has been very helpful, Thanks
I have downloaded a litecoin wallet onto my computer, would this work as cold storage?
Also are you able to send btc from bitstamp to btc-e?
Thanks very much