Site to purchase stocks with low fees?

[jdk]

I am looking to get into stock trading/investing as a side hobby. I want to play around with a couple thousand dollars so I will not be doing a lot of investing.

What I am looking for:

- NO monthly fees
- Low per trade fees
- Low fees for buying and selling

Not sure what else to look for. Like I said I will likely take a grand or two and start out with smaller stocks and play around with them. I will mainly be buying and holding on to them, so one or two purchases a month if that. Maybe 1 sell a month if that.

So far I have found eTrade, any others out there?

 

[Gerry]

Try scott trade or ameritrade (may be under a different name now)

There are a couple of others advertising as free or nearly free trades. But I would stick with one that has been around for a while.

Be sure to read conditions closely. Most charge a quarterly account fee. Scott Trade I believe does not.

E-trade offers a ton of services along with stocks and has been very reliable and dependable. But they are ones notorious for fees and for high buy and sell fees.

 

[Busynic]

I've used ThinkorSwim.com for the last 5-6 years. Their software is brilliant and fees negligible. It's more designed for options trading, but you can do straight stocks as well.

 

[draggar]

The Hollywood Stock Exchange (www.hsx.com) has a flat- 1% commission fee and commission free from 1PM Sat (EST) to 1PM SUN (EST) each weekend.

Of course, it's all fake money and based on movies..

 

[dvestors]

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[INVIGOR]

there used to be freetrade.com which was free, now it's $5 per trade.