Quote:
Originally Posted by SSLance
I'm sure this was probably covered earlier in the thread, but maybe things have changed since then...and it's something I'm looking at now so why not ask?
Who are you all mostly using for investment accounts these days?
I grew up in the investing world where you either paid hefty commissions on every equity trade or you paid a management fee quarterly to get the free trades. These days with Etrade, TD Ameritrade, and others doing free or very low cost trades...who is the hot ticket to use?
To me, if there were several houses that offered basically the same account fee structure, I'd be interested in the one that has the best\easiest to use research tools built into the online account.
|
I use ShareBuilder. I got free $ for signing up with my Costco account. Their Roth IRA accounts are free (ie. no monthly/yearly costs). Same with a regular account. Plus i get Market/Limit Trades at like $5.95. But if i "auto-invest", it will make the Market trade on tuesday for only $2. When i started, i was only doing a hundred bucks here, a hundred there, so $6 was nearly a 6% hit on my newly purchase stock. Thus the happiness for the $2 entry fee. But now i've learned to stick to at least $1k purchases to make it worthwhile.
I also have a Schwab Account. Mentioned earlier in this thread for its great research tools. But i dont have anything invested into that account. I opened it solely (at this point) for research.