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Here's what happened with the big table, and why IB was inadvertantly left out. When I originally put the table together, Harris Direct was still being called CSFB Direct. My fact checker found out that Harris Bank, who recently purchased CSFB Direct and is in the process of changing the...

the commissions shown are for a 500-share transaction for an account with $100,000 in assets. So many brokers have sliding scales and varying fees that we had to fix a single point in time and space in order to present a reasonable comparison. I asked my readers about a year ago what size...

Thanks for the ideas, everybody. Definitely a lot of food for thought. -- T.

Here's the gory detail on exactly what goes into the rankings. Merely saying the names of the various categories doesn't give the full picture. The following paragraphs are clipped from my March 12 feature. I apologize in advance for the length of this post, but I wanted to point out exactly...

I love Hong Kong -- I've been there a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it. My most recent trip was courtesy of Barron's actually. They dragged me (ever so reluctantly... :-) ) on a tour of Asia in March 2000 to talk about the online broker story to groups in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and...

Norske, multiple rankings based on type of trader is a scheme we've been discussing. I also want to make user-defined re-rankings possible on the barrons.com website. I know the readers aren't a monolithic identical bunch, but ongoing research over the years has shown that there's a fairly...

If any of you happened to read the complete series, you'll see that trade execution is very important. I'm just amazed at how little you know about something you're criticizing so thoroughly. The numerical rankings are generated from six different categories, all of which are important to...

cdntrader, I appreciate your comment. One thing I forgot to point out in my earlier post was that I have a specific audience in mind for the review. Barron's readers are not your average investor, and they have certain things they want analyzed. I did not write the article for investors...

As the author of the Barron's online broker rankings, I find it somewhat amusing that people will judge my work based on out-of-context quotes simply because my rankings don't fit the choices you've made. The direct access broker reviews took place over a 3-month period (May , June, July) and...