Whats the best online stock trading website for small investors?

Question

So many out there, e-trade, ameritrade, scottrade, sharebuilder.... lets say I just want to begin by investing $1000 ~ $2500, I dont want commision and trading fees to eat all my money... does anyone has experience with any of these?

Answer 1

There is no “best” on-line company

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.

Answer 2

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), and using $1000 I make about $350.00 a week with it..usually while i'm sleeping which is rather nice too.

Anyways, if you do want to check it out,

There is an article here:

http://www.squidoo.com/Stock-Trading-For...

I hope this helps

Jeff

Answer 3

i posted some articles on my blog weeks ago. one article is a survey of online brokers made by smartmoney (http://homeruntrades.blogspot.com/2008/0... and the second one by barrons (http://homeruntrades.blogspot.com/2008/0...

Hope these helps.

Answer 4

Here are some best websites offering free tips on share trading.

You can get timely email alerts also,

http://online-trading1.blogspot.com/