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I've been fuming at Scottrade the last week, so have been shopping. I did a quick comparison calculation. The past month I did roughly 54000 shares and 740 options contracts. Total commissions at Scottrade = over $1800 what commissons at IB would have been = $750 what a rip

gotcha, thanks Jerry. I'll definitely need streaming options, so looks like it may not be the best solution for me. I like the web connect feature of QT though, ie before if I wanted the financials of a company, I'd have to go to yahoo finance, punch in symbol, and click to what I need. very...

Thanks Jerry, fast response indeed :) I'm looking at Quotetracker as we speak. I trade options quite a bit, and the demo only shows option quotes in a browser window. I take it IB will have direct feed of option quotes into Quotetracker?

I should add that Scottrade elite is somewhat similar to Cybertrader. Cybertrader is a rip off imo for what it offers. I liked Bridge when it was around. Anyway to duplicate bridge or bloomberg type platforms with IB?

I'm shopping for a new broker, and pretty much narrowed down my choice to IB. I'm currently on Scottrade elite. Scottrade sucks overall, commission, execution, speed, etc. But I like the "feel" of their platform for keeping charts/quote lists/etc where I put them last, and all on the same...