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gsz55, Bptrade/Successtrade/Lowtrades seems to have a bit more than double the accounts than CyberTrader has. You can call them and send them an email to find out their response time. They used to charge extra ($1-$3) for trailing stop and logical orders. Now, they don't. They clears...

r-in, alanm, according to IB's web-site: "FOK, AON, MOL, MOC, Stop, Stop-Limit orders are always charged at this rebate regardless of size or time on books."

adityanm, providing invalid address is not a very good idea. You might lose importatnt mails sent by the broker.

conbar, you can choose specific direct routings ECNs or Market Makers if you want to. I think Ameritrade also has insurances up to 100 millions. However, that insurance will not cover the money you might lose if the market goes to the opposite direction than you want it to. You might want to...

Apparently, TradeKing has Order Triggers Orders (i.e. more than 1 order). IB has Order Triggers one Order. However, quite a few brokers have conditional orders (e.g., IB, Ameritrade, etc.) which you might tinker to make it work closely like Order Triggers (multiple) Orders.

Steve_IB, IB' email customer services representatives unfortunately sometimes don't answer in 240 hours even for relatively simple questions. However, they do answer my "new account" related questions fairly quickly. The story is different for my old account related questions :(. I hope...

Why have you been fuming? What did Scottrade do?

John, How do you delete the certain stock orders' "rth-only" information from IB's system?

OneHipCat, it is unfortunately not uncommon to get contradictory answers from IB-chat, IB-phone, IB email customer service representatives and IB's web-site. If possible, try to get the names/reference# of the representative/correspondence. I have found that certain representatives just do not...

Scottrade does not seem to have direct-access routings or conditional triggers/orders that most active traders' need---but somehow managed itself to be in the ET's list of brokerage firms. Ameritrade offers direct routing options including ARCA, BRUT, etc.'s re-routing features for better...

IB actually has a minimum $3 monthly fee minus commissions if the client is 25 years old or younger. IB does not have additional IRA maintenance fees. However, the minimum age to open an account is still 21. In the mean time, you may want to look at the links under "University of IB" tab from...

IB has a minimum $3 monthly fee minus commissions for the clients under the age of 25. However, the minimum age to open an account is 21.

You might want to use "trailing stop-limit" order. Depending on the stocks/volume/volatility, sometimes "trailing stop-limit" order is more useful than "trailing stop (market)" order.

MBTrading has fees for account transfer-out, IRA maintenance and closing. MBTrading's equity commissions are higher than IB's in general. IB has a minimum monthly fees of $3 (for the clients who are under 25 years of age) or $10 (for 25 and over) minus commissions.

You may also want to look at Firstrade.

Vikana, Thanks for sharing your experience. I had mixed experiences with IB with respect to account transfer-in. The first one went through without any hassle in less than 2 weeks. However, the most recent one took double that time. At first, it went from "acknowledged" to "rejected" in a...

cmk, How many days did it finally lake from the first time you initiated the account transfer and you actually got the account transferred in IB? Does anybody have any experience how many days it really takes to transfer an account out of IB?

In a cash account, regardless of the account having any type of cash-call or not, the brokers will not let you take money out until the proceeds of your trades have settled. However, you can withdraw money out from a margin account before the trades settle, but you have to pay margin APR until...

Since HarrisDirect/E-trade's system is still letting you buy stocks, their system may then still let you withdraw funds. (Some brokerages' system will give you up to ~5 days before they put hard 90-day restrictions on trading.) On Monday morning, try to find out if you can withdraw funds. If...

It is possible to have the margin account and not to borrow if you don't want to. In fact, in that way, you can use the proceeds of your previous trades without having to wait till your trades settle in 3 days. 5 rolling days means 5 consecutive business days when the stock market is open...