I have been an ETrade customer for about 60 days. The research they offer is good, including Reuters, S&P, and a couple of composites. Trades are executed nearly real time. Site is easy to use, and easy to comprehend without help files. The bad news with ETrade is the hidden fees, and quite frankly.... the deceptive advertising of 6.99 to 9.99 trades. Unless you have a $25k portfolio *and* trade continuously, the true rate is 12.99. If you happen to hit the 30 trades a month or so, then they will *refund* the difference after 90 days. Extremely deceptive practices with all of their fees. The least those guys could do is give their customers real time quotes. Real time quotes are $14.99 a month. To keep from paying for what I should be getting as a free service, I use Yahoo's free real time quotes and keep both windows open. Why is it Yahoo does it for free but ETrade charges $14.99 a MONTH for it? I highly recommend anyone to try one of the other services and avoid ETrade. I'll be switching over pretty shortly myself.
I have been an ETrade customer for about 60 days. The research they offer is good, including Reuters, S&P, and a couple of composites. Trades are executed nearly real time. Site is easy to use, and easy to comprehend without help files. The bad news with ETrade is the hidden fees, and quite frankly.... the deceptive advertising of 6.99 to 9.99 trades. Unless you have a $25k portfolio *and* trade continuously, the true rate is 12.99. If you happen to hit the 30 trades a month or so, then they will *refund* the difference after 90 days. Extremely deceptive practices with all of their fees. The least those guys could do is give their customers real time quotes. Real time quotes are $14.99 a month. To keep from paying for what I should be getting as a free service, I use Yahoo's free real time quotes and keep both windows open. Why is it Yahoo does it for free but ETrade charges $14.99 a MONTH for it? I highly recommend anyone to try one of the other services and avoid ETrade. I'll be switching over pretty shortly myself.