It will be a better answer if you have a account and speak for experience.
2007-02-02 07:24:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
I use Scottrade and it largely works fine for me, but I use the free browser, so all the fancy stuff isn't there. Schwab is also good, very good. I just can't see paying extra for the trades since I usually find what I want independently--ironically, which is what Schwab got big at doing originally. Long ago I used a full-service brokerage, Harris Upham, which was bought out by Smith Barney. I used to get the stock certificates and would pick specific certificates use when selling the shares again, so I could control my costs directly rather than use the IRS rule for costing like I do today. But I also used to pay something like $35 for a trade that would undoubtedly cost far more today--why do that when I could pay only $7 commission? Something interesting I saw recently, Bank of America has trading available for free if you meet certain minimums and do no more than 30 trades a month. It wouldn't work for most of my market activity, but worth consideration for the more casually, or formulaic, programs.
2007-02-02 08:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like TD Ameritrade (but that's personal experience)..
wouldn't recommend ShareBuilder.
are you looking for a specific benefit or feature?
2007-02-02 07:41:59 · answer #2 · answered by jason29445 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
**** YOU.
2007-02-02 14:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by luna. 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋