Has anyone used Ameritrade or Scottrade to buy stocks?
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I use Td ameritrade and it has great service and competitive commissions as well
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Yes (Just open an account in ameritrade.com)
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Not that I'm aware of,,\nbut there's several steel company stocks trading on the stock market.\n\nHere's a Mexican one trading on US's AMEX that's done ok,,just for example.\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SIM&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
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The question has several answers depending on how it is interpreted. For example, mutual funds allow you to buy shares that track the S&P 500. One might consider buying shares in one of those mutal funds as buying shares on the stock market. Fidelity and Vanguard both sell these and others.\n\nIf on the other hand you are talking about an on line stock broker, there are quite a few. Again Fidelity which I think is excellent, TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, Scottrade, and  others.
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There are a lot of good brokererages depending on what you like and how you trade.\n\nBarron's Online has a great article on brokerages that they publish each year. (I'll try to find you the link for the March 6,2006 article)\n\nFor basic stuff, E*Trade, Ameritrade, and Scottrade are sufficient. For more complex trades, I'd recommend Optionsxpress, ThinkorSwim, or interactivebrokers. \n\nBased on what you put in your question, I'd recommend one of the first three, but all are very good. Cheapest probably is scottrade (of the larger online firms). \n\nBut yes there are cheaper like interactivebrokers, but you'll have to get used to their software based platform (which is doable). They're only about $1/contract on options!\n\nBrokerages like Fidelity are horrible for anyone with any decent experience. \n\nSo, decide what's important to you as a trader and compare the brokers! You can use the article, or go to each website as they all seem to have comparison charts! \n\nAnd if there are particular things that you want to mention as being most important to you (such as executions, cust svc, cheapest trade - which you mentioned, flexibility on allowing you to do certain types of trades, stop and stop limit orders, contingent orders, great graphing, what if scenarios, training, etc), I'll be glad to help discuss this with you too!\n\nIf you have any questions, let me know.\n\nHope that helps!
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First of all, I wouldn't suggest you to enter into any options since it is mostly for hedging purpose and not for speculating...it is extremely risky~!  But~!  if you really want to get into one by using scottrade as your broker,  you have to open up an account and also sign an option/margin form stating that you want to trade option in your account.\n\nSecond, you NEVER exercise an option~!!!!  NEVER~!! You either Sell or Buy to Cover the option to close out your position.  The gain by closing out the option (if your option is giving you a profit) will always be higher than when you exercise the option because unless the option expire, there's always the time value in the option that will make the price higher.  \n\nIf you do decide to open a scottrade account, please use me as referral so we both get free trade =)  Feel free to e-mail me if you have question or decide to open an account Ken2681@gmail.com
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try charles schwab, e-trade, or ameritrade
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Scottrade is $7 to buy, $7 to sell (overall great).  sharebuilder is great if you buy and hold for long periods of time (in the $20 a month plan, the first 20 automatic investments a month are free, and about $11 to sell).  I would go with scottrade overall, though (i buy from sharebuilder and also have scottrade but i am too lazy to move all my assets to scottrade(my dad also has scottrade and loves it)).
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I would suggest to pick one of them and then compare with other brokers services,fees and other stuff!!!\nu can go to www.ameritrade.com or www.etrade.com or just google it and find the manes.....it's what i did!!!\nGood luck!
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Go ask some of your large broker houses in the US if they have access to the Australian Market. I know that some of our brokers in Australia offer the service for us to directly purchase US stocks.
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Some companies do allow you to buy stock directly from them. They use Direct Purchase Plans (DPP) and a Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIP).
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For beginner, you better of with brokers.  Scottrade required only $500 to open an online brokerage account.
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I use scottrade since 2003 and have had no problems with them.  I havent bought any stocks since february and no charges or anything.  infact when I first opened the account I did not buy any stocks for 2 months and they gave me 1 cent interest for the money I had in the account.  They are cheap when it comes to buying stocks but one thing I dont like about them is they suck when it comes to penny stock.  lets say you bought penny stock that were valued at 50 dollars all together, they will charge you the 50 bucks for the stocks, the fee for the trade plus 50% the value of the stock, so you pay them 25 bucks extra simply because they are penny stock.  Other than that I like the account.
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In a LOT of ways, it is easier to open an account with an online broker.\n\nI've had Scottrade (scottrade.com) for several years.  They are quick, cheap, honest and the trading is fast.  I think you need a minimum account balance of $500 or so, though.
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Yes, anyone can. Just make sure that your are working with a good brokerage company or a good website like ameritrade.
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Open an Account on www.ameritrade.com\nNext you wire some money into that new account. This will usually take a couple of days. \nYou are charged per trade. A trade is approx. $12. You can buy as many shares as you like. Usually people buy in lots off 100.
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I use Scottrade.com as my online broker.  I believe they have the best rates.  \n\nIf you are looking for investment ideas, I would suggest http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx\n\nGood luck!