List your broker and post your reasons why you like this broker over any others that you may have experience with. If you are using a broker not on the list please let us know about it, as this will help new traders determine what broker they may want to use. Many thanks!

Thanks Paul or ghost :D
I am preparing a questionnaire (to post it later on) regarding USA trading, markets, etc… one question was about broker/bank, commissions etc.. in America so I could compare with mine Europeans….
I have in mind to open an USA acc. In order to trades all markets…..
Interested in answers given

Stand to reason why I will not vote….. ;) :D

TD (Waterhouse) and Ameritrade are one in the same, called TD Ameritrade or TDA now.

Anyhow, I only have experience with TDW and TDA so I have to vote for them. LOL I've been real happy with the TDA website, it's much better now they've combined with TDW. Great tools, $9.99 trades and superfast "at market" trades of 5 seconds or less.

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I think Ben has a migraine.

i'ma chameleon not a ghost :D

so now to answer my own poll... i have marginal account with etrade and pay 12.99 one way commission and am looking to try out another broker for pennies...

what I ment was, are you Paul(catfish disguised as fireopal

talking about banks
I pay $20 x deal commission (18$ after 300trades)
real time NYSE and Nasdaq with L1 +10€ x month
using a platform with charts news, books, etc... €55 x month (free if I do 400 trades x month that include all markets)

no charges in keeping the accounts but give me a 2.5% interst on any money left on it
free "spread" if closing the same day at 1:4 in USA and up
to 1:10 in Milan

what those banks give you? or how much will cost a real time L2?

havw a nice w/e

PS (forgot to ask)
can you all trade in any USA market... Pink OCT etc...

lol paul/catfish was right >> this is fun and maybe i should really play with this!! but i won't so no - catfish hasn't been using his 'paul' name to move around the forum and let's me fireopal use it so that i can work on the site and is why i opted to change the title under my avatar from moderator to chameleon... get to play the role of a man if i want to and then become a female again!!!

and to answer your question - we have 3 types of trading accounts in the country... cash - marginal - day trader.... i do not have l2 as of yet and work with real-time charts.... however, with etrade the day trader account gives you l2 for free but i believe you have to pay an extra $30 for it with other accounts that is if you do not do a certain number of trades per month.. commission fees vary with each type of account.. pretty sure cash accounts still have a service charge of $40. per quarter if you do less than 4 trades for that quarter...

best thing to do is check out one of the broker sites to see what we have and what the commission rates and service charges are... can check www.etrade.com and also do a search for other ones listed above to get their rates.. and yes, believe with all major brokers in the usa that you can trade on all exchanges but if wrong, can someone please correct me...

I started with tdamer and have been pretty happy with them. $9.99 trades and they give you 45 free when you start a new account with $2k. Before the end of the 90 days, I qualified for Apex which gives you free L2s and news. I paid $9.99 for live L2s in the first month.

I recently opened an account with zecco and their 40 free trades a month...no minimum. I found at tdamer I was a low maintenance kind of customer and zecco is a low support kind of broker. They don't have any tools like last sale and L2s so I use my tdamer for them but so far, I've been happy with zecco's performance.

Ciao Bella = hi beauty
I can't understand if you are a "she" and want to be a "he" or are a "he" that want to be a "she"!!!! :confused: ;)

Now to serious business
Yes I have already done some researches in USA for bank/broker, but to get a new customer they NEVER answer questions…. Some want to register (to open an account!!) without clarify cost etc….
(I might be green but In’t a cabbage) LOL

USA Etrade sent me their contact in Italy, I am waiting some reply to my questions from them…

this is an e-mail I received (yesterday) from Ameritrade
Bull S***** here the Gov. let me open an acc in USA if I adhere all the USA rules and regulations....

as you can see I have been busy but I feel like a dog that bite his tail... getting nowhere

I wont give up yet!!!!

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