Ameritrade

Pros: pretty cheap trades, site is laid out pretty well
Cons: inactivity fee comes out to $60/year

i started with ameritrade over etrade because you could open an account for only $500, and they had some of the cheapest trades around. well, not anymore. if you're young and want to start out investing a little bit at a time, ameritrade is not for...

Pros: Rebates of Commissions lower your net costs
Cons: They are not as big as other full service brokers

What I like about the Ameritrade Brokerage Firm is the Rebate Program they offer new accounts. For too many years the New York Stock Exchange did not allow individual stockbrokers or their firms to offer Rebates of Commissions on Stock Transactions....

Pros: Easy
Cons: Poor graphics

I have now dumped ameritrade due to excessive fees. I moved to Scottrade and will opine on them if its better or worse. in the near future.


Ameritrade is definitely a no frills company. The website requires a little bit of trial and...

Pros: they have cheap trades
Cons: everything else is a rip off

This Broker is good for the fact that it has the cheapest trades for a normal trade.But I have noticed that everything else is over prised But if all you use is the trades.Their trades take about 20 to 30 minutes for the trade to be complete.I recommend...

Pros: Cheap,cheap, cheap
Cons: VERY annoying advertisements (yoga class)

I first selected Ameritrade for they price. $8 stock trades! wow, That's just great! I thought this was gonna be some cheesy scam service that sucked, but no, it is a quality service that does what I want when I want it. The trading is cheap, easy and...

Pros: Very low comission.
Cons: Low amount of real time quotes.

Investing is hard enough but when you add an online broker, things can get confusing. That is why I pick Ameritrade for all my online trades. With a nice low rate of $8, I can trade all I want without worrying about how much my comission is going to...

Pros: Low prices
Cons: Noy real time

Ameritrade is an online broker. Why pay commissions to brokers to manage mutual funds buy QQQ for NASDAQ, SPY for Standard & Poors, DIA for Dow Jones, all for $8 a trade? This is a very conservative approach, buying stocks which have shares in all...

Pros: low initial opening balance
Cons: slow trade execution

While Ameritrade does offer decent service, there are better options out there. The only reason I initially chose Ameritrade was because it had a low initial investment to open an account. The trade execution is decent but sometimes slow and the user...

Pros: Cheap trading, Watch for special offers
Cons: High initial deposit, bland website

For the beginner, I don't feel Ameritrade is the best choice for a discount broker. My opinion stems from the rather bland website and the high initial deposit ($2,000). However, Ameritrade does offer special enrollment deals all the time. I took...

Pros: Great help ,and site.
Cons: Lots of need for real time quotes.

This is the perfect site, I have read about this site before
hand ,and saw that it would be worthy of a quick run through.
I love it and do so still this very day.

You have all you need her cheap trades always.
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Pros: Simple interface, low commission
Cons: Cumbersome to manage multiple accounts

I use both Ameritrade, WitCapital and Etrade and prefer Ameritrade for their simple interface, ease of use and low commissions.

I perform nearly all of my trades online. When you know where to go to research companies, Ameritrade is by far the...

Pros: Low commissions
Cons: No research tools

Ameritrade was very easy to start and account with, but I quickly learned that you get what you pay for. The commissions are low, but there are almost no research tools to help you decide where you want to invest your hard earned money. I found myself...

Pros: Fast , easy, even an idiot can use this!
Cons: NONE!

I saw these ameritrade commercials and thought that this stuff is a bunch of B.S. A few days later i found myself signing-up with ameritrade. You'd be surprised at how EASY it is. Of course it took a week or 2 before they received my check and i recieved...

Pros: www.scottsave.com/www.scottsdale.com
Cons: Quantity of clients, not quality of clients

Ameritrade is horrible. They beat up little kids and steal there lunch money. all these commercials. "I HAD A BROKER FOR THE BETTER PART OF TEN YEARS AND THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS BROKER IS ME." Yet the guy is standing behind a house worth...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Slow Site, Slow Trades

I was recently thinking about opening an Ameritrade online brokerage account, because I see the commericals all the time and it seems like a good deal. It has cheap trades at $8 and you only need $500 to open an account, sounds too good to be true!...