I have been using Fidelity for both personal investing and for managing my 401K for over 10 years. I like the fact that all my accounts for the kid's collegte funding, 401K, stock investments are easy to manage from one place. I think that the conditional trading is a great feature. Here is how I use it: I purchase a stock, and immediately use the conditional training to put in a sell limit and stop loss, so then I can walk away and not manage it every day. The two improvements that Fidelity could make would be to not cancel these, sometimes they just dissappear and I have to re-enter them. The other one is to a better job at tracking international stocks, you can't put in conditional sell orders for stocks like Lenovo or Vevendi which are out of the country. On international individual stocks they don't even show daily gains or losses. However, their mutual fund purchases are really easy and have good research tools to make decisions.
I have been using Fidelity for both personal investing and for managing my 401K for over 10 years. I like the fact that all my accounts for the kid's collegte funding, 401K, stock investments are easy to manage from one place. I think that the conditional trading is a great feature. Here is how I use it: I purchase a stock, and immediately use the conditional training to put in a sell limit and stop loss, so then I can walk away and not manage it every day. The two improvements that Fidelity could make would be to not cancel these, sometimes they just dissappear and I have to re-enter them. The other one is to a better job at tracking international stocks, you can't put in conditional sell orders for stocks like Lenovo or Vevendi which are out of the country. On international individual stocks they don't even show daily gains or losses. However, their mutual fund purchases are really easy and have good research tools to make decisions.