Recent content by motyeh

My bad experiences with Scottrade (I listed just a few) have happened for the most part in 2006 when I became a more active trader with shorter holding periods. The trades I described were for smaller order sizes from 100-500 shares, for less than $30000, and in liquid but not extremely fast...

Here is a link to web speed and availablity for the nation's largest and most visited brokerages for the period March 20-30,2006. http://gomez.com/Performance_Strategies/benchmarking/benchmark_usbrokerage.html

Scottrade has lousy system reliability, with their website or active trader platforms down or unable to accept trade orders, or unable to execute submitted orders lately, more than 20 minutes a day on average. On occassion they've been down for much of the trading day. Even reaching a broker...