if you're trading full-time, I think Interctive Brokers is good
because commissions are much lower than the retail brokers on small
shares sizes. So you can scale in 100 or 200 shares at a time
for a couple bucks each time. For large share orders -- over
1000, I often use Ameritrade qhere my commissions are still pretty
good, and less than IB for those share sizes. Ameritrade,
Findelity, etc. have better streaming charts, IMO
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Posted by Michael on 1st of Aug 2008 at 01:02 pm
if you're trading full-time, I think Interctive Brokers is good because commissions are much lower than the retail brokers on small shares sizes. So you can scale in 100 or 200 shares at a time for a couple bucks each time. For large share orders -- over 1000, I often use Ameritrade qhere my commissions are still pretty good, and less than IB for those share sizes. Ameritrade, Findelity, etc. have better streaming charts, IMO