What are some investment brokerages that don't have a minimum balance requirement or a low one &have low fees

Question

for transactions i.e. stock trades etc....

Answer 1

Many brokers have minimum requirements.  However, I currently use Firstrade ( http://www.firstrade.com/ ). and they do not have minimum requirements.  At $6.95 per transaction, their commission fees are low as well.  I've been using them for years now and have not encountered any problems.  I would definitely recommend you to check them out.

Answer 2

Most of the online discount brokers have low minimums and low to no fee's.

For example I have a scottrade account,  the min. on a brokerage account is $500 they also have no account fee or low balance fee's.  

They only fee's that would apply are commissions for trades, fee's on Mutual Funds/ETF's and sales loads on Mutual Funds that have a sales load.