Ameritrade

Pros: good order execution, good customer service
Cons: order confirmations not sent out

I have had accounts with Ameritrade for several years and have had good successes with them. I don't trade often, I'm more of a buy and hold type of person, but when I have traded my orders are almost always executed on time and accurately. Only...

Pros: LOW FEES
Cons: CAN'T FINE ONE YET

I like the Ameritrade website. Loads faster than E*Trade and their real time quotes are faster, too.

Also find the site easy to navigate and use. The $8 fee is super. That's a lot cheaper than E*Trade which charges $19.95 per...

Pros: Cheap commissions, fast execution
Cons: Expensive margin loans

I've been an Ameritrade customer for over three years. When I signed up, they were about the cheapest in commisions ($8 market, $13 limit orders). Now, however, there are at least 1/2 dozen cheaper discount brokerages, including Brown & Co. (15K...

Pros: Cheap commissions
Cons: Slow options executions

I selected Ameritrade a couple years ago to begin trading stocks. Some of the benefits I liked about Ameritrade were that it has cheap commissions: $8 for market orders; $13 for limit, stop limits, stop orders; I think $17 for touch-tone orders (I don't...

Pros: easier and cheaper to use
Cons: none

Ameritrade is a no-brainer. After trying Schwab, E-trade, and Ameritrade, I think Ameritrade is the easiest to use.
If you want to buy or sell a stock, you don't want to wait until next week to find out that the broker forgot to follow your order...

Pros: Easy to Use...No Frills....Relatively Fast Trades. $8.00 Trades.
Cons: I wish they could directly wire funds from your bank account! Horrible Research Tools!

Ameritrade is a no-frills online brokerage service. You don't get stock screens, you don't get a voice on a phone. It's no mistake that their company slogan is "Believe in Yourself" (which of course means that you're on your own).

I trade...

Pros: Cheap, Fast, Easy,Experience Levels
Cons: Slow notifications, Minimum $2000(unless promo)

I've been using them for a few years now and still love it. I started with American Express, but could not trade options on-line with them. You can trade options on-line with Ameritrade for a flat $25 + $1.75 per option contract, or regular stocks for...

Pros: fast trades,updated website,good customer service
Cons: website page loading is a little slow

i opened up an account with Ameritrade about a year ago and haven't had nothing to say bad about them yet. the website is above average, however, the research could be a little better. i get better research from excite that is better. customer service...

Pros: Straight forward, no frills
Cons: A little bland

I've always been a mutual fund investor, who didn't do and trading of individual stocks. I started seeing some stocks I was interested in buying, but found the full service brokers to have high minimums and big fees. Hey, I just want to throw a few...

Pros: Reliable, inexpensive
Cons: None

"I thought we all agreed to stay...archaic." That is a line from one of my favorite television commercials. Although it doesn't advertise Ameritrade, the sentiment applies.
Do you remember the old days when people would boastfully talk...

Pros: Solid web site, good customer service
Cons: Maybe not as "sexy" as eTrade

I've had an Ameritrade trading account for about two years now and I can truly say I love it. Yes, the web site is maybe not as jazzy as eTrade's or some of the other web brokers, but it works when I need it. And, it is simple and straightforward, much...

Pros: Cheaper, decent service
Cons: slow for mutual funds to process

After putting up with bad service from ETrade, I opened an account with Ameritrade.

It took a couple of weeks to getit opened where I could make a trade. But this was confirmed by their customer service line, not the web site. The New Account...

Pros: All the financial tools you need
Cons: none

I've had an Ameritrade account for 2 years. The reason we switched from a traditional broker to an online account was to have more control over our decisions of stock purchases, and to also have the ease of trading quickly if something came up.
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Pros: Cheap Trades
Cons: Low quality web site

Ameritrade has been running a special with a $500 initial investment and free trades for the first month. This is a very good deal for the new investor with a small cash investment. It can give the small investor a place to trade cheaply and...

Pros: none for OTC/BB stocks
Cons: terrible broker assisted service, long hold times, unupdated accounts, incorrect account info....

Recently, I called a few on-line discount brokers about trading OTC/BB stocks. Upon talking to a new account "specialist" I was informed that it would cost only $8 for ONLINE OTC/BB trades. I couldn't be farther from the truth. Excited at...