| Who is the best broker overall? |
| Ameritrade Inc. |
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10% |
[ 5 ] |
| E*Trade Financial |
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6% |
[ 3 ] |
| Scottrade |
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61% |
[ 29 ] |
| TD Waterhouse |
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6% |
[ 3 ] |
| Schwab |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
| Fidelity |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
| Investrade |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| EX24 |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Sharebuilder |
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6% |
[ 3 ] |
| Harris Direct |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| FirstTrade |
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4% |
[ 2 ] |
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| brklyn8900 |
 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| I signed up with firsttrade.com. they are very slow at getting money from my bank account to my trading account. Its been almost a week and a half and my account is not funded. The rates are cheap and theres no minimum but boy are they slow. |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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CFO
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Someone made a point about efficiency in execution at a different board about online brokers, I think that is very important, although I don't hold it against any online broker if they can't get an order filled in an OTCBB stock, even if the price falls below your limit buy  Ameritrade is a good value for the 10.99 comission charge based on the market info you get with each trade or even quote, but I have noticed that their site appears to slow down during periods of fast market conditions, so that could obviously be a bad situation if the markets go into panic mode, idealy you would find an online broker who fills orders quickly for under 10.00, and has no problems when there is increased "client activity" I guess since all of the little worthless online brokers are combining forces that brings more clients into whatever system they decided to use, which might overload it, which means sumbody's goona be mad (but not me cause I don't use stops anyway ), that's why AMTD is really a sub 10.00 stock, but don't tell that to the guy who opened an AMTD account today and paid 20.00+, shhhhhhhh |
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| MrInvestor |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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Investing Manager
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| Pretty amazing results. I really never knew. |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: |
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I'm going to bump this to hopefully get more votes.  |
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| frusnak |
| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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CFO
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My broker is TDWaterhouse I have no complaints. They are being bought by Ameritrade in 6 mo.'s Do not know how I feel about this  |
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| scootklein |
| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Investing Sr. Associate
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| on a scale of 1-10, how important do you feel a broker is for advising where you put your money |
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| soma |
| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Investing Sr. Associate
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| 1. I trust my own research enough. |
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| frusnak |
| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:40 am Post subject: |
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CFO
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| cwing wrote: | | I am about to open up a scottrade account ! |
cwing,
are you satified with your scottrade account? |
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| nelaina |
| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:20 am Post subject: |
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CFO
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does anyone have anything to say about sharebuilder? I am just starting out with investing and they seem to offer the best plan for someone like me (no minimums). They were mentioned in an article @ msn money
Start investing with just $100
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| remotivator |
| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Investing Sr. Associate
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I'd like to know that myself. Considering my income level, and I'm just now learning and preparing to start a portfolio online, I'm probably gonna start with Sharebuilder. Maybe start with a couple hundred in an index I like that gains kiler returns and then slowly grow it with more earnings from some safe short-term "shoe-in" trades...at least until I get my feet wet. It sounds like a pretty good deal for starting out if you're not gonna hastle with options and other more complex methodologies. I already know the ups and downs between market orders and limit orders, but for now, someone like myself can't beat $4/trade. Only thing is, I think the difference between a $4 market order and a $20 limit order seems a bit suspect. Probably about the same difference everywhere though.
Anyone got any insight to add? |
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| nelaina |
| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: |
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CFO
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so after doing some thinking ive decided to open up a scottrade account. Im funding it with a security that ive owned for a while but was holding onto.
Now i think i have the confidence to get started , and scottrade seems to be the best for me:D |
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| bigdave |
| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:39 am Post subject: |
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scotttrade is the way to go...
If you are really limited on amount to invest sharebuilder is nice but onyl for the long term as to get in on there low priced deal your stock is bought only once a week or day i think... unless you want to pay the higher fees. |
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| mrbradg |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Scottrade hands down! Cheap and they have good help. |
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| geb9696 |
| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Investing VP
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| I believe to get the $4 a trade from sharebuilder you have to be okay with them making the purchases on Tuesday. I do not remember exactly what policy is but I would look into it before opening an account with them. |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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CFO
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Sharebuilder is not where you go for real-time trades! The price for one is $16?!?!
geb9696, how is your Scottrade account treating you? |
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