Buying stocks online

[jimmytammy]

Just curious, if you buy stocks via the web, what service do you use, and what do you like/dislike about the service?

I have always traded via a local bank, done well with them in retirement acct., but am thinking of doing some investing on my own. This would be money I can play with a little, using mostly to help fund WDW trips

 

[ktmo]

I use Sharebuilder. I have been using them for years. I think it is $4 a trade when you set up automatic investments. I have accounts for me and my two girls. The girls actually buy Disney Stock thru Sharebuilder. At the time I set up the account, Sharebuilder had some of the lowest trade rates, so that I why I went with them at the time. They also often offer promotions if you set up account, so a little bit of free money. There are now a lot more options, but I just stuck with Sharebuilder.

I am not a major investor, I just put a little in there each month.

I also have a couple of Capital One 360 savings accounts and they are all linked, so that is an added bonus.

 

[cvjw]

TD Ameritrade. We have used them for many, many years. My DH handles all of our stock purchases, but he has been really happy with them and their service.

 

[kiki02]

TD Ameritrade. We have used them for many, many years. My DH handles all of our stock purchases, but he has been really happy with them and their service.

fidelity

 

[sifko36]

I bought my first stocks at 18 on TD ameritrade and continue to use them today

 

[NewWorld Traveler]

I also use Sharebuilder. They are easy to manage and recently lowered the cost of real-time trades to $6.95. Automatic investments are still $4 -- a good deal.

 

[BuzzLiteyear]

I use Sharebuilder for automatic investing and TD Ameritrade for my regular investing.

 

[3boymthr]

sharebuilder. It goes in automatically, I love that I don't even have to think about it.

 

[sweetdana]

Tdameritrade, started with them. Tried Morgan stanly moved back to tdameritrade.

Likes. Low cost, friendly web page, someone answers the phone.

Dislikes, none thought I needed a fin adviser, but happier without.



Negatives to Morgan Stanley, incredible high fees, attempted to charge 150$ a yr to have an account with multi multi thousand in it. Sales man double talked me into it then waived it... But only for the -at yr, cancelled the following jan. No one to answer the phone, just 19 different transfer/options and hang up on you 3 times trying.

Liked. Nothing I thought they were crooks after how I was treated.

 

[jimmytammy]

Great feedback folks, thanks so much!!

 

[crisi]

Wells Fargo - I'm a PMA customer so I get 100 free trades a year, I can transfer easily between accounts at one place, and about 90% of my finances are on a single statement. (except 401ks)