This page has tabs for all major online brokerage firms and gives a brief description of the firms.
- E-Trade
- Fidelity
- Charles Schwab
- Trade King
- TD Ameritrade
- ScotTrade
- Firstrade
- Zecco Trading
- TradeMonster
- OptionsXpress
Name: E-Trade
URL: etrade.com
Description(Yahoo Finance): E*TRADE wants you to use its services for E*VERYTHING financial. A top online brokerage, the company has more than 4.5 million retail account holders who can trade stock over the Internet (the majority of transactions) and by phone. It also offers mutual funds, options, fixed income products, exchange-traded funds, and portfolio management services. For corporate clients, the company performs market making, trade clearing, and employee stock option plan administration services. Subsidiary E*TRADE Bank offers deposits, savings, and credit cards online, as well as at nearly 30 financial centers in major US cities; customers can transfer funds between their banking and brokerage accounts in real-time.
Stock Info: EFTC
Name: Fidelity
URL: Fidelity.com
Description(Yahoo Finance): Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. provides technology solutions, processing services, and information-based services to the financial services industry. Financial Solutions segment provides processing services, including core processing software applications used to maintain the banks customer accounts; retail delivery applications integrating back-office processes; decision solutions; applications for syndicated commercial loan origination and management; applications that assist institutions in evaluating automotive loan applications and credit risk, and managing loan and lease portfolios; commercial technology solutions ranging from consulting and application development to information technology infrastructures management; outsourcing and customer services; and risk management services to assess and detect fraud risk for deposit transactions, as well as branch automation, back office support systems, and compliance support. Payment Solutions segment offers payment processing and risk management services, including debit and electronic funds transfer, electronic banking and bill payment services, merchant processing services, item processing services, credit card services, check authorization system, and prepaid card services comprising gift cards and reloadable cards. International segment provides financial and payment processing software and services, including outsourced card issuer services and customer support, item processing, and retail point-of-sale check authorization services; and outsourced core bank processing arrangements, application management, software licensing and maintenance, facilities management, and consulting services. The company serves the U.S. banks, credit unions, automotive financial companies, commercial lenders, independent community and savings institutions, retailers, and financial institutions. Fidelity National Information Services is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
Stock Info: FIS
Name: Charles Schwab
URL: www.schwab.com
Description(Yahoo Finance): The Charles Schwab Corporation provides securities brokerage, banking, and related financial services to individual, institutional, and corporate clients. The companys Investor Services segment offers retail brokerage and banking services to individual investors. It provides research, analytic tools, performance reports, market analysis, and educational material. The Charles Schwabs Advisor Services segment provides custodial, trading, technology, practice management, trust asset, and other support services to independent investment advisors through sales force and service team. The companys Corporate and Retirement Services segment offers retirement plan services, plan administrator services, advice services, education, stock plan services, and mutual fund clearing services; and supports the availability of Schwab proprietary mutual funds on third-party platforms. The Charles Schwab Corporations product line comprises various asset management accounts, including some with check-writing features, debit card, and bill pay; individual retirement accounts; retirement plans for small to large businesses; 529 college savings accounts; separately managed accounts; designated brokerage accounts; equity incentive plan accounts; and margin loans, as well as access to fixed income securities and equity and debt offerings. It also offers first mortgages, home equity lines of credit, pledged-asset loans, certificates of deposit, demand deposit accounts, high-yield investor checking accounts linked to brokerage accounts, and credit cards; trust custody services, personal trust reporting services, and administrative trustee services; and third-party mutual funds, and mutual fund trading and clearing services to broker-dealers. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stock Info: SCHW
Name: Trade King
URL: www.tradeking.com/
Description(Business Week): Kane Reid Securities Group, Inc., doing business as TradeKing, operates as an online broker dealer in the United States. The company provides options, equities and ETF, mutual funds, and fixed-income trading services. Its Web-based platform also features online equity, options, and fixed-income trading tools, such as portfolio information, order entry, customized charting and alerts, research and integrated news, volatility charts, a pricing probability calculator, option chains, and educational information, as well as stock, option, and mutual fund screeners. In addition, the company offers market snapshots of exchange activity, quotes, news headlines, and industry commentary; research on company profiles and performance, investment ratings, and growth rates; online community services; and electronic funds transfer and account sharing services. Kane Reid Securities Group, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.
Stock Info: Not a Publicly Traded Company
Name: TD Ameritrade
URL: www.tdameritrade.com
Description(Yahoo Finance): TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage services and technology-based financial services in the United States. The company offers common and preferred stock, American depository receipts, exchange traded funds, option trades, futures and foreign exchange trades, trading on mutual funds and fixed income securities, margin lending, and cash management services. Its client offerings comprise TD AMERITRADE for self-directed retail investors; TD AMERITRADE Institutional that provides brokerage and custody services; trading platforms that enables research and analysis; a suite of education products and services for stock, option, foreign exchange, futures, mutual fund, and fixed-income investors; Amerivest, an online advisory service that develops portfolios of exchange-traded funds to help long-term investors pursue their financial goals; and TD AMERITRADE Corporate Services, which offers self-directed brokerage services to employees and executives of corporations. The company also provides services, such as trade execution, clearing, trustee, and trust-related services; and cash sweep products through third-party banking relationships. TD AMERITRADE Holding offers its products and services to retail investors, traders, financial planners, and institutions through the Internet, a network of retail branches, wireless telephone or personal digital assistant, interactive voice response, and independent registered advisors via telephone. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
Stock Info:AMTD
Name: ScotTrade
URL: www.Scottrade.com
Description(Business Week): Scottrade, Inc. provides online trading and brokerage services. It offers investment products, online trading platforms, and market research tools to the investors, which include stocks, options, mutual funds, individual retirement accounts, bonds, certificates of deposits, fixed income investments, Coverdell ESA, exchange-traded funds, and advisor services, as well as market information, news, charting capabilities, technical analysis, and integrated level II quotes. Scottrade, Inc. was formerly known as Scottsdale Securities, Inc. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri with additional offices in St. Louis, Missouri; Canton and Stow, Ohio; Oceanside and Chino, California; and Greece, New York.
Stock Info: Not a publicly traded compnay
Name: FirstTrade
URL: FirsTrade.com
Description(Business Week): Firstrade Securities Inc., an online discount brokerage company, provides an online trading platform. Its products and services include investments, such as stocks, options, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, fixed income, and dividend reinvestment; and accounts, including general investing, retirement, international, business, education planning, and cash management accounts. The company also offers online broker tools and research, such as X-Stream that maintains and tracks various lists; stock reports; streaming news; streaming portfolios; investment screeners; and planning tools. Firstrade Securities Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Flushing, New York.
Stock Info: Not a publicly traded company.
Name: Zecco Trading
URL: Zecco Trading
Description(Business Week): Zecco Holdings, Inc. operates a financial social networking community site for online investing and trading. Its community site includes dashboards, profile, forums, and blogs that provide quotes and research on news, market movers, indices, calendars, rates, and currency. The company, through its subsidiary, Zecco Trading, Inc., also operates as an online brokerage to offer free stock trading, Web-based market data, and technical analysis solutions. It provides options trading tools, options analytics platforms, stock screeners, tax-planning and performance tools, profit and loss calculators, probability calculators, options calculators, and historical and implied volatility. In addition, it provides ZeccoShare, an investing community for sharing verified profiles, holdings, trades, and performances. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California with an additional office in Pasadena, California.
Stock Info: Not a publicly traded company.
Name: TradeMonster
URL: www.trademonster.com/
Description(LinkedIn): trade MONSTER™ is an innovative online brokerage that grew from the success and reputation of optionMONSTER.com, a leading provider of financial market intelligence and analytical commentary.trade MONSTER™ is a subsidiary of OptionMonster® Holdings, Inc., whose co-founders Jon Najarian, Pete Najarian, and Dirk Mueller are trading veterans and respected investment industry experts with over 20 years experience cultivating financial and technology driven businesses. Their passionate belief in educating and informing investors led them to create optionMONSTER.com. And in 2007, they assembled a team of industry experts to create trade MONSTER™, a brokerage built on that same commitment to investor education, and ultimately, successful investing
Stock Info: Not a publicly traded company.
Name: OptionsXpress
URL: www.optionsxpress.com/
Description(Yahoo Finance): optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. provides Internet-based options, futures, stock, mutual fund, and fixed-income brokerage services to investors located in the United States and internationally. Its brokerage platform delivers various trading tools, which allow retail and professional investors to identify, analyze, and execute a range of investment strategies. The company, formerly known as optionsXpress, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Stock Info: OXPS