A sister company of optionMONSTER, tradeMONSTER is the newest player in the online discount broker game. Barron’s continues to rate tradeMONSTER as a four-star broker, and while they have many similarities to other discount brokers, tradeMONSTER has no trouble setting itself apart from it’s competition.
tradeMONSTER’s Commission Structure
tradeMONSTER provides a very straight forward pricing structure, which [...]
Last week my family had dinner with good friends of ours. After dinner our conversation turned to investing. Our friends told us about a money manager they were going to use to manage a small portion of their investment portfolio. The wife was fed up with the ‘buy and hold’ investment strategy, [...]
Scottrade has the reputation of being one of the best online discount brokers in the space today. The purple and white continue to win JD Power and Associates awards for highest investor satisfaction and when compared against other online discount brokers, Scottrade seems to hold up pretty well.
Scottrade’s Commission Structure
Pricing is always an important factor [...]
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. [...]
