Stock Trading and Other Things

What's a good On-line broakage company to buy and sell stocks?

I'm looking for a good brokerage company to start invest in. What company do not charge you high membership fees if you don't plan on making a trade every week.

I want to trade when it's time to trade, and don't what a firm that requires me to trade every other day so that they can earn the commisson on the backend.

What's a good compnay that you recomend?

Public Comments

1. Scottrade. It's cheap and it's quick. Very low amount to open account and no fees for non-activity.

2. I love Schwab. Lots of support and great website plus no fees for those times when you don't want to be in the market. It's excellent.

3. Try Zecco. There is no commission on the first 10 trades every month.

4. I posted some articles i found on the net on my blog. These ranks online brokers and several more information that may help you make a sound decision. good luck!

http://homeruntrades.blogspot.com/2008/05/barrons-ranks-online-brokers.html

5. Mostly all brokerage firms provide their clients with on-line services, including trading platforms, latest market & financial news and research.

Customer need to select the site that is best for them. Traders have requirements in a site, while investors have other requirements.

Although most sites are geared to general securities and commodities, however customers may have special needs for the types of products they trade, and the markets in which they trade.

It seems that the most popular firms for on-line investing all of which provide excellent platforms and services are; Scottrade; Chas.Schwab; TDAmeritrade; Fidelity; E-Trade and Thinkorswim

6. This is the type of question that will get you 1000 different answers, with 1000 different links.

Myself, I prefer using the program called "Marl"...it's a stock trading robot (yes, really..don't laugh). Using an initial investment of $1000 I made about $350.00 a week with it..usually while i'm sleeping which is rather nice too.

Now that I've made money, I've invested alot more...and lets just say, the money is nice. :)

Anyways, if you do want to check it out,
There is an article here:
http://www.squidoo.com/Stock-Trading-For-Dummies

I hope this helps

Jeff