What's the best online stock brokerage these days?

[Rick Latona]

What's the best online stock brokerage these days? I used to use E-Trade* a lot back in the late 90s. Who's the market leader and who has the best online tools today in 2004? I think I'm getting back in the market.

[MetaformX]

Rick Ameritrade is very good especially if you will be doing day trading type of investing (lots of trades per day)

[Quotealex]

In Canada, there all pretty much the same and charging pretty much the same fees (more or less $5 difference from one another) IMO. Wasn't E-trade purchased by TD a while ago?

[Sosa]

I use Ameritrade

[Volantt]

I'm cheap and use http://www.firstrade.com

[johndoebob]

Depends on what you want to do (day trading/swing trading/long term trading).Ever tried to trade in the Forex market?

[Rick Latona]

I just want to make a couple of long term buys a month.

[Hank_Heartland]

I use http://www.sharebuilder.com

[johndoebob]

For long term trades ameritrade should be ok for you.

[johndoebob]

If you're looking for discount brokers you can also check out

http://www.etrade.com/
http://www.fidelity.com/
http://www.schwab.com/

These are the best atm.

If you got big money and want an investment company to do the job without having a clue about stocks yourself go to Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo or Morgan Stanley.

[-=HOAX=-]

http://www.scottrade.com/

[wdsguy]

are u concerned about low fees, timely order execution, research or what?

[Rick Latona]

Originally posted by wdsguy
are u concerned about low fees, timely order execution, research or what?

Timely order execution. I just found out that my E Trade account is still open. I just funded it and bought 1000 shares of VCLK in a matter of minutes so all is well.

[wargames]

Ive been using scottrade for about 2 years now. I havnt had a problem yet

[ztik]

another here for ameritrade
they have great CS

[Goatse]

If you play the pinks, you need Ameritrade. You really can't go wrong with them.

[BigWebRev]

i use http://www.schwab.com/

[boobmaster]

Originally posted by Rick Latona
What's the best online stock brokerage these days? I used to use E-Trade* a lot back in the late 90s. Who's the market leader and who has the best online tools today in 2004? I think I'm getting back in the market.

You must be a frigging multi-millionaire. All you ever do is talk about money.

[boobmaster]

Originally posted by Rick Latona
Timely order execution. I just found out that my E Trade account is still open. I just funded it and bought 1000 shares of VCLK in a matter of minutes so all is well.

Just a hunch or do you have inside info?