What's the best online trading platform?

Question

I currently have sharebuilder but they charge twice as much for selling than for buying stocks.

What are other competitors? I'd like one with no minimum, no maintance fees either.

Answer 1

There are a lot of good brokererages depending on what you like and how you trade.

Barron's Online has a great article on brokerages that they publish each year. (I'll try to find you the link for the March 6,2006 article)

For basic stuff, E*Trade, Ameritrade, and Scottrade are sufficient. For more complex trades, I'd recommend Optionsxpress, ThinkorSwim, or interactivebrokers.

Based on what you put in your question on wanting affordable w/o inactivity fees, I'd recommend optionsxpress since they have no minimum activity that you're required to do. Further, they have some great strategy scans and a decent virtual trading platform to practice on.

Brokerages like Fidelity are horrible for anyone with any decent experience. Though they do have decent research stuff.

But for research, there are SOOO many places to find good stocks.

So, decide what's important to you as a trader and compare the brokers! You can use the article, or go to each website as they all seem to have comparison charts!

And if there are any other particular things that you want to mention as being most important to you (such as executions, cust svc, cheapest trade - which you mentioned, flexibility on allowing you to do certain types of trades, stop and stop limit orders, contingent orders, great graphing, what if scenarios, training, etc), I'll be glad to help discuss this with you too!

If you have any questions, let me know.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

if your day procuring and merchandising --- no longer Scottrade , I particularly have particularly gotten the screw on a lot of trades . In heavy quantity their platform locks up, and while your attempting to day commerce into or out of a commerce its a disaster. Interactive brokers is the superb, and you may commerce from distinctive international places. yet while your only procuring and retaining / and or making an investment for long-term Zeeco is loose, and the information superhighway website is at par.

Answer 3

So..
If you are not a big expert of the market you need some kind of technical support to succed with binary trading. I use "autobinary signals". It's a good software. I'm using it with good results. Details here: http://www.goobypls.com/r/rd.asp?gid=551

Answer 4

the best trading software http://tradingsolution.info
i have attended a lot of seminars, read counless books on forex trading and it all cost me thousands of dollars. the worst thing was i blew up my first account. after that i opened another account and the same thing happened again. i started to wonder why i couldn,t make any money in forex trading. at first i thought i knew everything about trading. finally i found that the main problem i have was i did not have the right mental in trading. as we know that psychology has great impact on our trading result. apart from psychology issue, there is another problem that we have to address. they are money management, market analysis, and entry/exit rules. to me money management is important in trading. i opened another account and start to trade profitably after i learnt from my past mistake. i don't trade emotionally anymore.
if you are serious about trading you need to address your weakness and try to fix it. no forex guru can make you Professional trader unless you want to learn from your mistake.

Answer 5

scottrade is what i use-there is a minimum of $500 bucks but that aint much.

cheap trades and very good tools and easy to use- go to scottrade.com and take a tour