Recent content by HappyT90

I'm currently using Firstrade. The trading rate's pretty decent at $6.95. I think they have one of the lowest, if not the lowest, margin rates in the industry. Customer service is pretty good and reliable. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by giving you an option to use your own bank.

Trading crude oil would be nice. $$ Can anyone confirm this?

I never used IB but I'm always hearing problems about them.

I think you should definitely transfer to a different brokerage firm because most of them all allow you to assign beneficiaries. I currently use Firstrade and all I had to do was fill out a Transfer On Death (TOD) form.