TDAmeritrade® is one of the best known discount online brokers. They have been 30 years in the business.
They now charge a flat $9.99 for all market and limit orders, regardless of account balance or how many shares you buy. There are also NO Inactivity Fees.
Generally, $1,000 equity is required to open an IRA, and $2,000 [...]
ShareBuilder® just recently merged with ING. What makes them unique, is the Automatic Investment Plan. You can schedule dollar amount trades and pay a commission of $4 or less! This is a great feature if you want to have long term investments.
They have no account minimums and No inactivity fees. ShareBuilder offers 3 pricing programs [...]
LowTrades is a discount broker with very low commissions of $4.95 per trade. They also have $4.95 for Limit Orders, Stop Orders, Trailing Stops, and Stop Limit Orders.
An Inactivity Fee of $50 is charged semi-annually, for the two trading periods between January-June and July-December of each calendar year. To avoid inactivity fees, you must execute [...]