What is the best online site for buying-selling stocks, mutual funds, etc...?
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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.
i like TD Ameritrade (but that's personal experience)..
wouldn't recommend ShareBuilder.
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