Online Broker Directory

  • A.B.
    Watley

    Offers
    NASDAQ II quotes. Real-time quotes and trades from $10.

  • Accutrade
    $30 per trade up to 1000 shares. Online trading requires
    free proprietary software. Also mutual funds and options
    trading. Margin rate is 1-2% above the brokerage call rate.
    $5000 minimum account balance. One notable feature is the
    ability to place trades at a future time when specific
    conditions are met. Compatible with Sharp’s Zaurus PDA.

  • AFTrader
    $9.95 per trade, Wireless trading at no extra charge, free
    news alerts, free premium research, no fee IRA’s and free
    unlimited real-time quotes.

  • American
    Express Brokerage
    $14.95/trade for up to 3000 shares.
    Also mutual funds trading. No minimum account balance. News,
    quotes, alerts, company research, S&P MarketScope, and
    Comtex are included.

  • Ameritrade

    $8/market orders, $13/ limit orders. Also options, mutual
    funds, and bonds.

  • Amerivest

    $27/trade for stocks and mutual funds.

  • Atlantic
    Financial

  • Bidwell
    & Co.
    Starting at $12 per trade.

  • Boom
    Hong Kong.

  • Brown
    & Co.
    Cheapest. $5/trade for market orders,
    $10/trade for limit orders. 100 real time quotes per trade.
    They only want investors with five years of experience.

  • Brunswick
    Direct
    Focused solely on 22 emerging markets.

  • Burch
    & Company
    Fees from $9.95 to $14.95.

  • Bush
    Burns
    – $25/trade.

  • Charles
    Schwab
    Allows you to buy and sell stocks, mutual
    funds, options, and Treasuries. $30 trades up to 1000
    shares, or 3 cents a share for more than 1000 shares. They
    also offer 50 real-time quotes per trade, plus research from
    Credit Suisse First Boston and Hambrecht and Quist for
    $30/month. $5000 minimum account balance.

  • Citibank
    – Online banking and trading.

  • CompuTEL
     
    $9/trade for market orders for 1000 to 5000 shares, 1 cent
    per share additional over 5000 shares. $19/trade for limit
    orders. Also options. 100 free real time quotes per day.
    No-fee IRAs. $5000 minimum opening balance.

  • Credit
    Suisse First Boston Australia Equities Private Limited

    Australia.

  • CyberCorp
     
    Online broker that caters to active traders. Subsidiary of
    Schwab.

  • Datek

    $10 Nasdaq and NYSE trades. Unlimited real time quotes. 1
    minute order execution or it’s free. Also, you can set price
    limits for your stocks and they’ll email you when the
    conditions are met. $2000 minimum account balance.

  • Delta
    Equity Services
    $35 plus half a percent of the total
    amount.

  • D.F.
    Mainland Group
    – New Zealand.

  • Discover
    Brokerage Direct
    $15/trade. Also mutual funds,
    options, and bond trading (including Treasuries). Fee-based
    package adds research from Morgan Stanley, news, real time
    quotes, and portfolio management. Margin rate is 0.75 to
    2.5% above the brokerage call rate. $2000 minimum account
    balance.

  • CSFB
    Direct
    $20/trade for up to 1000 shares. Also options,
    bonds and mutual funds. No minimum account balance.
    Excellent information package, including S&P MarketScope,
    Zacks analyst recommendations, 100 real time stock and
    option quotes per trade, Reuters market news, and Lipper
    mutual fund research. Also, research from Donaldson Lufkin
    Jenrette. Integration with pagers and handhelds.

  • Dreyfus

    $15/trade (first 3 trades are free). Best rate on options:
    $1.75/contract with a $15 minimum. Real-time quotes when
    ordering. Margin rate is 0.5 to 1% above the brokerage call
    rate. $1000 minimum account balance, $2000 for margin
    accounts.

  • EquityStation.com

    Caters to active investors. $19.95 market orders for 1-99
    trades a month, $16.95 per trade for 100-299 trades a month,
    and $14.95 per trade for 300+ trades a month (price change
    is retroactive).

  • EmpireNow.com

    $7 for market orders, $12 for limit orders. Market orders
    of 1000+ shares of stocks above $5/share are
    commission-free. Also options, bonds and mutual funds. No
    minimum balance.

  • E*TRADE

    $15/trade for up to 5000 shares on market orders of listed
    stocks, $20 for unlisted stocks and limit orders up to 5000
    shares. Includes portfolio tracking system (with alerts),
    current market data, and candlestick charts and other
    technical analysis tools. Real-time quotes $30/month. Also
    options and bonds. $5 to talk to a live broker. Margin rate:
    1.75-2.25% over brokerage call rate. $1000 minimum account
    balance, $2000 for margin accounts. The site also includes a
    trading demo so you can see how everything works. Some
    access to IPOs at the offering price.

  • Fidelity

    $29/trade for up to 1000 shares. Unlimited real time
    quotes. Investment research from Salomon Smith Barney, plus
    access to IPOs.

  • Fifth
    Third Bank

  • TheFinancialCafe.com

    Free market order electronic trades, $4.95 limit order
    electronic trades, online banking, mortgage, and insurance.

  • First
    Discount Brokerage
    Full service, discount and online
    brokerages services.

  • Firstrade

    $10 per order, $5 per NASDAQ order over 1000 shares.

  • FreeTrade.com

    Free equity trades, $5 stop and limit orders. Will open a
    in a new window.

  • FREETRADEZ

    Online broker offering 100% commission free trades
    (ad-based revenue).

  • Freedom
    Investments
    – $15 per trade.

  • Freeman
    Welwood
    $15/trade for market orders, $20/trade for
    limit orders, up to 2000 shares. Above 2000 shares are one
    cent per share.

  • GE
    Financial Brokerage

  • Global
    Access
    Nasdaq Level II trading as low as $9.95 for
    unlimited shares.

  • Harris
    InvestorLine
    $13/trade for market orders, $18/trade for limit orders.

  • Howe
    Barnes NetInvestor
    Commissions are $19 + $0.01/share. Also mutual funds,
    bonds, options, and CDs. Portfolio tracking, news, and
    research. $5000 minimum account balance.

  • Interactive
    Broker

  • INTLTRADER.com
    Trades in foreign and domestic securities.

  • Investex
    Securities Group
    $15/trade for most trades. Also mutual funds, options,
    and bonds. No minimum account balance.

  • InvestIN
    $10/trade. Free real-time quotes.

  • InvestorLine
    $25/trade for market orders. From the Bank of Montreal.
    Also mutual funds.

  • InvesTrade
    $8/trade for stocks. Automated touch-tone phone trading
    at the same price. Options trading is $1.75/contract, $15
    minimum.

  • Jack
    White & Co
    Commissions start at $12/trade. Free real-time quotes
    with an account. Also mutual funds. $5000 minimum account
    balance.

  • J.B.
    Oxford
    Commissions start at $14.50/trade. Unlimited real time
    quotes. Also mutual funds, bonds, and options trading. $2000
    minimum account balance. Customers receive free Internet
    access as long as they keep the minimum balance in the
    account

  • Killiney
    Investments
    A brokerage company which offers Internet based dealing
    service in FX, Futures, Options and Stocks for both
    institutional and private investors.

  • InternetTrading
  • LiveTrade.com
    Live Level 2 screens, execution via all ECNs, NYSE, and
    portfolio management.

  • LowTrades.com
    This online broker offers limit orders and market orders
    for $4/trade. Do your research with InvestorGuide
    Research
    and place
    cheap orders here.

  • Market
    Touch Web
    $15/trade under 1000 shares.

  • MB
    Trading
    Day trading. $15 to $24 per trade.

  • Muriel
    Siebert & Co.
    $15/trade.

  • Mr.
    Stock
    $15/trade up to 1000 shares. Also mutual funds and
    options.

  • Mydiscountbroker.com
    $12/trade up to 5000 shares.

  • National
    Discount Brokers
    $14.75/trade for market orders, $19.75/trade for limit
    orders. Real time quotes. Over 7500 mutual funds. $2000
    minimum account balance.

  • Net-Invest
    From Capital International Securities Group. $25/trade.
    Also in Spanish.

  • NetVest
    Discount Broker.

  • Newport Discount Brokerage
    $19/trade.
  • Norwest
  • Peremel
    Online

  • Quick
    and Reilly
    $15/trade for market orders, or $20 for limit orders.
    Also options trading. No minimum account balance.  Two
    ways to trade, including one with the aid of a broker.

  • Regal
    $20 for Nasdaq trades of 1000 or more shares, $25 below
    1000 shares, and $29 for listed trades up to 5000 shares.
    Unlimited real time quotes. No minimum account balance.
    Every tenth trade is free. Margin rate is 0.5% above the
    brokerage call rate.

  • R.J. Forbes
    Starts at $10/trade.
  • RML
    Trading

  • RushTrade.com
  • Sanford
    Securities
    – Australia.

  • Schwab
    Allows you to buy and sell stocks, mutual funds,
    options, and Treasuries. $30 trades up to 1000 shares, or 3
    cents a share for more than 1000 shares. They also offer 50
    real-time quotes per trade, plus research from Credit Suisse
    First Boston and Hambrecht and Quist for $30/month. $5000
    minimum account balance.

  • ScoTTrade
    $7/trade for market orders, $12/trade for limit orders.
    100 real time quotes per trade.  $2,000 account
    minimum.  Also options trading.

  • ShareBuilder
    Buy and sell stocks in dollar amounts. No account or
    investment minimums. Only $2 per transaction.

  • Sharex.com
  • Sherry
    Bruce’s State Discount Brokers

  • Sloan
    Securities

  • SuccessTrade.com
    For daytraders – $7.95 market and limit orders.

  • Summit
    Trading
    Day trading. Downloadable software.

  • SpeedTrader
    $15 to $20 per trade.

  • Stockwalk.com
    Trade bonds and cds, too.

  • SuccessTrade
    All Trades Only $9.95 a trade-includes market and limit
    orders.

  • Sunlogic
    $16/trade.

  • SureTrade
    $8/trade for market orders, $10 for limit orders, listed and OTC, up to 5000 shares. Same price for Canadian stocks.
  • SwifTrade
  • Tradefast
    3 cents per share, $20 minimum.

  • Trade.com
  • Trade4Less
  • TradeScape.com
    Geared toward active traders. $1.50 per 100 shares, free
    Level II quotes, Direct ECN connections. Educational
    products.

  • TradeSecurities.com
    After-hours trading. $25,000 minimum account balance.
    Commissions of 6 cents per share, minimum $100.

  • TradeStar
    From Savoy Stocks. $14/trade for market orders, $19/trade for limit orders. Real-time quotes.
  • TradeWallStreet.com
    Full service broker providing direct access trading from
    $9.95/trade.

  • TradeWell
  • Trading
    Direct
    From York Securities. Commissions start at $10/trade.
    Also options and mutual funds. No minimum account balance.

  • Trend
    Trader
    Day trading. Starts at $15/trade.

  • T.
    Rowe Price
    $25/trade up to 1000 shares.

  • TruTrade
    $11/trade for OTC or less than 2000 shares of listed
    stocks. No-fee IRA, free checkwriting, mutual funds, and low
    margin rates.

  • USRica.com
    Trades executed for only $4.95 per trade, plus $2.50
    service charge. Free Unlimited realtime quotes, online
    account balance.

  • Vision
    Trade
    $15 per stock trade. Also options and mutual funds.

  • Wachovia
  • WR
    Hambrecht
    Online broker offering $20 internet and $25
    broker-assisted trades

  • Wall
    Street Access
    They focus on the active trader. Commissions start at
    $25/trade. 100 free real-time quotes with each trade. Also
    Treasuries and options trading.

  • Wall
    Street Discount
    Starts at $20/trade.

  • Wall
    Street Electronica
    From Winston Rodgers & Otalvaro, a full-service
    firm. Commissions start at $15/trade. Also bonds and
    options. $10,000 minimum account balance.

  • Wang
    Commissions start at $5/trade. Text is in Chinese or
    English.

  • Waterhouse
    webBroker
    $12/trade up to 5,000 shares. Free real-time quotes,
    charts, news, S&P reports, and Zacks earnings estimates.
    Also mutual funds. 24-hour access to a live broker.

  • Web
    Street Securities
    $15/trade. Nasdaq trades of 1000 or more shares are
    commission-free. Ten second executions and one minute email
    confirmations. Streaming real-time portfolio management.
    Java-based interface.

  • WellsTrade
    From Wells Fargo. $30/trade.

  • White
    Discount Securities Online

  • Wit
    Capital
    Stocks, mutual funds, and options.

  • Wyse
    Starts at $8/trade.

  • Your
    Discount Broker
    Day traders can pay $30 to trade in and out of any stock
    for a full day.

  • Ziegler
    Thrift Trading
    $20/trade for up to 2000 shares, $0.01/share thereafter.
  • Small Business Loans
    First Funds Capital provides small business loans up to $1,000,000 in as little as 72 hours.