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These, as you might expect, are our “cream of the crop” brokers. While some brokers that are not in this category may fit your specific needs better, these brokers offer the best combination of pricing and features that will meet most people’s needs. If you have a more specific interest or need in investments, please check out the other categories.

Top 5 Brokers

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.







Scottrade

Scottrade® is a well established discount brokerage with a history going back 30 years now. This fact may not be obvious because of the relatively recent advertising you may have noticed for Scottrade. In fact, the company was started in 1980 and started offering online trading in 1996.







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!
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