There can be no mistaking that gold is once again in vogue. There are so many commercials on late night television with celebrity endorsements trying to convince you to buy gold coins or telling you that you can make a fortune by selling your scrap gold. But the only people who are actually making money [...]
A reader recently asked which low cost stock brokers pay the highest interest rates on cash. This question is particularly important if you plan to have a fair amount of cash in your brokerage account. And the interest rates paid by brokers on cash balances vary considerably. Some brokers don’t pay any [...]
OptionsHouse, one of the lowest cost online discount brokers, regularly offers promotion codes and other discounts. I’ll keep track of each promo code here as they become available. Here are the discount codes currently available from OptionsHouse.
100 Free Trades from OptionsHouse: Follow this link to OptionsHouse and use the promo code FREE100 [...]
Six high profile employees of hedge funds, IBM, Intel and the consulting firm McKinsey were arrested for insider trading. The case against them stems from a 2007 earnings report released by Google in which quarter profits were lower than expected. It would seem that someone at Google released this information a little ahead of time, [...]
In addition to being one of the best discount brokers out there, Zecco has developed a pretty sweet platform for Forex trading. If you’re not familiar with Forex trading and enjoy playing around with cool technology, Zecco will provide you a mock trading account with $50,000 in virtual currency. With real-time quotes, it’s the perfect [...]
Updated List Of The Best Discount Stock Brokerage Firms
As I mentioned in my review of Sogotrade.com, I’m looking at online discount brokers to determine where to open an IRA account later this year. And in the process I’ve learned three important things about online brokerage firms. First, there are a lot of them. [...]
As I search for online stock trading sites for my SEP IRA, it’s been intresting to watch the discount brokers compete on price. Zecco was one of the first deep discount brokers, offering free stock trades. They’ve since scaled that offer back, but still offer low cost trading. But Sogotrade.com recently caught [...]
Zecco, an online discount stock brokerage firm, is offering up to $75 for each friend you refer to Zecco. And the program is really easy to use. If you currently are signed up with Zecco, just follow these steps:
Visit http://hello.zecco.com/raf/index.html
Fill in your name and the same e-mail address associated with your Zecco Trading [...]
OptionsHouse Summary
$2.95 stock trades
Rated #1 in trade experience in Barron’s 2009 Online Broker Survey
Try before you trade with virtual trading
$9.95 flat-rate options trading
Up to $100 rebate when you transfer your account from another broker
website: www.optionshouse.com
What distinguishes one online discount broker from another? As more and more online brokers enter the low-fee arena, they [...]
