Brokerage Reviews | Best Discount Brokerages

Information to Help You Choose the Right Online Broker
 
 
Category Description

These brokers have special sign-up promotions available. Please note that most promotions have specific requirements for eligibility. For the best cash bonus, optionsXpress offers $100. For trades, OptionsHouse offers 100 free trades. For transfer fees, TradeMONSTER offers up to $250 in reimbursed transfer fees.

Broker Promotions

TradeMONSTER

TradeMONSTER® is ranked by Barron’s among the best of the best, and is their number one rated broker for options traders. The broker received a 4.5 star rating in the options trader category, and a four-star rating in trade experience, trading technology, research amenities and customer service and education.







OptionsHouse

OptionsHouse® is an online brokerage that stands out from the rest by having an incredible $3.95 stock commission, as well as very low options commissions of up to 5 contracts for $5, or $8.50 + $0.15/contract! This is essentially the most inexpensive online brokerage out there at this time for most traders.







E*TRADE

E*TRADE® is one of the most popular and well known online discount stock brokerages. Many of you are probably familiar with their advertising campaign which features the “E*TRADE Talking Babies” to help promote their services. E*TRADE is a publicly traded company under the symbol ETFC, and has a market capital of around $3 billion.







optionsXpress

optionsXpress® is an award winning online brokerage that has some quite unique features. This is one of the few brokers that offers futures trading, helping investors diversify into yet another market type.







TradeKing

TradeKing® is a highly rated online broker that has won several awards from various investing publishers for both its trading tools and customer service. They offer a super low stock commission of $4.95 (Note: this applies to stocks over $1).







Questrade

Questrade® is a Canadian owned and operated discount online brokerage. They are currently only accepting Canadians, U.S. citizens that are current residents in Canada, or Chinese citizens that apply in person in Canada. Questrade is quickly growing and receiving numerous accolades for their service, features and great pricing.







ChoiceTrade

ChoiceTrade® is a super discount stock broker that offers a flat trade commission of only $5 for up to 500,000 shares.* There are no pricing restrictions or hidden fees, and no minimum per trade! This makes ChoiceTrade a very attractive and affordable option. In addition they are one of the few online brokers to offer a Direct [...]







SogoTrade

SogoTrade® is a deep discount online brokerage with a very low stock commission of $3 for stocks over $1/share. Options are also fairly cheap at $5 + 65 cents per contract. While the low commissions are attractive, you don’t get a whole lot in terms of features and available investment securities.







NOTE: Brokers are always ranked on the page by overall ratings, the position on the page doesn't necessarily reflect a broker's merits within a specific category. Please read the category description for our top category brokers. If you do not see a specific broker here we have not yet completed a full review, it hasn't made the cut, or does not fit within the category. Please check back for future updates!
Categories

Quick Links

Sponsored Links

WordPress SEO fine-tune by Meta SEO Pack from Poradnik Webmastera