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bkny1055

Who should i go with for stock trades

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I just wanted to trade stocks for now

maybe mutual funds in the future but for now just stocks

Who do you guys recommand to go with

I was looking at E-Trade

 

any feed back will be appreciated

Newbie here

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Yea good point Brown. Tell us a little bit about how you want to trade.

 

I started out with stocks with long term trades being my goal. My trading time frame was up to a year long so as to get capital gains tax breaks!

 

E*trade is good cause if you're going to be swing trading all you really need is EOD data which is provided free for you once you set up your account.

 

I use ComSec for my stock trades but thats an Aus based broker which trades my domestic markets.

 

I guess commissions are a big factor. If you're going to be trading often then you may be better off going to a non online broker cause their commissions may be cheaper than Etrade etc where you can pay up to 30 dollars for each trade (AUD), and more for short orders and some limit orders.

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thanks for the quick reply

i am thinking about trading about 10 times a month or so

i want to do short term trades

with small gains at first i only have 5k to begin so i want to keep them short and build some money

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thanks for the quick reply

i am thinking about trading about 10 times a month or so

i want to do short term trades

with small gains at first i only have 5k to begin so i want to keep them short and build some money

 

Make sure you are aware of the pattern day trader rules.

 

http://www.patterndaytraderrule.com/

 

http://www.sec.gov/answers/daytrading.htm

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thanks for the quick reply

i am thinking about trading about 10 times a month or so

i want to do short term trades

with small gains at first i only have 5k to begin so i want to keep them short and build some money

 

WIth 5k you dont really have enough buying power to make much money. Your commissions on trades will eat up your profit. You will need to have significant moves to really take any profit after commissions are factored in.

 

Therefore you will want to be trading only a small handfull of highly liquid volatile stocks which have at least a $1 volatility per day. High market cap miners are a good bet for that.

 

Why don't you paper trade for a while till you have a fairly good system set up thats been backtested and proven, then use your 5k as collateral on a margin loan to really boost your buying power? That way you can actually profit more from these trade? Probabbly best to talk to a financial adviser first before you do that as they will have a clear picture of your financial situation.

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WIth 5k you dont really have enough buying power to make much money. Your commissions on trades will eat up your profit. You will need to have significant moves to really take any profit after commissions are factored in.

 

Therefore you will want to be trading only a small handfull of highly liquid volatile stocks which have at least a $1 volatility per day. High market cap miners are a good bet for that.

 

Why don't you paper trade for a while till you have a fairly good system set up thats been backtested and proven, then use your 5k as collateral on a margin loan to really boost your buying power? That way you can actually profit more from these trade? Probabbly best to talk to a financial adviser first before you do that as they will have a clear picture of your financial situation.

 

Okay well i am up to 7500.00 cash and 2500.00 in a roll over and i am going with Etrade for now

We all have to start somewhere and i guess with time i will just get myself up to where i should be

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I use strategydesk from ameritrade and up to day I had no problems whatsoever. Nice charting package kinda similar to e-signal. Fast execution.

 

I only trade the cube's and spyders and my trades are longer than the futures.

 

If you're using options to create leverage on the stocks try optionxpress...excellent customer service and fast execution.

 

Hint: If you ever take a peak on qqqq and have acces to futures, use NQ as a leading indicator for the cube's...works a treat

 

Regards

 

Raul

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Hello there, I'm resurrecting this thread to ask for some advice regarding brokers for stock trading.

 

I'm from Asia, and have my own "local" brokers who allow the trading of US shares - but that's not what I really want to do. I'm just interested in watching price and trade data for now, and learn to read the tape for a while.

 

Problem is, 2 of my 3 brokers that allow the trading of US stocks do not even provide real-time sales data. The best I can get is a real time candle-stick chart...with no sales volume data to boot.

 

Can anyone please advise if there are any brokers/service providers that do supply such data, and preferably for free? Also, any historical data/chart would be a bonus. I'm thinking of e-trade but I'm unsure if you need more than their basic platform to get such services.

 

Thanks in advance!

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