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• A.B. Watley
  Offers NASDAQ II quotes. Real-time quotes and trades from $10.
• Accutrade
  $30 per trade up to 1000 shares. Online trading requires free proprietary software. Also mutual funds and options trading. Margin rate is 1-2% above the brokerage call rate. $5000 minimum account balance. One notable feature is the ability to place trades at a future time when specific conditions are met. Compatible with Sharp's Zaurus PDA.
• AFTrader
  $9.95 per trade, Wireless trading at no extra charge, free news alerts, free premium research, no fee IRA's and free unlimited real-time quotes.
• American Express Brokerage
  $14.95/trade for up to 3000 shares. Also mutual funds trading. No minimum account balance. News, quotes, alerts, company research, S&P MarketScope, and Comtex are included.
• Ameritrade
  $8/market orders, $13/ limit orders. Also options, mutual funds, and bonds.
• Amerivest
  $27/trade for stocks and mutual funds.
• Boom Hong Kong.
• Brown & Co.
  Cheapest. $5/trade for market orders, $10/trade for limit orders. 100 real time quotes per trade. They only want investors with five years of experience.
• Bush Burns - $25/trade.
• Charles Schwab
  Allows you to buy and sell stocks, mutual funds, options, and Treasuries. $30 trades up to 1000 shares, or 3 cents a share for more than 1000 shares. They also offer 50 real-time quotes per trade, plus research from Credit Suisse First Boston and Hambrecht and Quist for $30/month. $5000 minimum account balance.
• Citibank - Online banking and trading.
• CompuTEL  
  $9/trade for market orders for 1000 to 5000 shares, 1 cent per share additional over 5000 shares. $19/trade for limit orders. Also options. 100 free real time quotes per day. No-fee IRAs. $5000 minimum opening balance.
• Credit Suisse First Boston Australia Equities Private Limited - Australia.
• CyberCorp  
  Online broker that caters to active traders. Subsidiary of Schwab.
• Datek
   
• Delta Equity Services
  $35 plus half a percent of the total amount.
• D.F. Mainland Group - New Zealand.
• Discover Brokerage Direct
  $15/trade. Also mutual funds, options, and bond trading (including Treasuries). Fee-based package adds research from Morgan Stanley, news, real time quotes, and portfolio management. Margin rate is 0.75 to 2.5% above the brokerage call rate. $2000 minimum account balance.
• CSFB Direct
  $20/trade for up to 1000 shares. Also options, bonds and mutual funds. No minimum account balance. Excellent information package, including S&P MarketScope, Zacks analyst recommendations, 100 real time stock and option quotes per trade, Reuters market news, and Lipper mutual fund research. Also, research from Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. Integration with pagers and handhelds.
• Dreyfus
  $15/trade (first 3 trades are free). Best rate on options: $1.75/contract with a $15 minimum. Real-time quotes when ordering. Margin rate is 0.5 to 1% above the brokerage call rate. $1000 minimum account balance, $2000 for margin accounts.
• EquityStation.com
  Caters to active investors. $19.95 market orders for 1-99 trades a month, $16.95 per trade for 100-299 trades a month, and $14.95 per trade for 300+ trades a month (price change is retroactive).
• EmpireNow.com
  $7 for market orders, $12 for limit orders. Market orders of 1000+ shares of stocks above $5/share are commission-free. Also options, bonds and mutual funds. No minimum balance.
• E*TRADE
  $15/trade for up to 5000 shares on market orders of listed stocks, $20 for unlisted stocks and limit orders up to 5000 shares. Includes portfolio tracking system (with alerts), current market data, and candlestick charts and other technical analysis tools. Real-time quotes $30/month. Also options and bonds. $5 to talk to a live broker. Margin rate: 1.75-2.25% over brokerage call rate. $1000 minimum account balance, $2000 for margin accounts. The site also includes a trading demo so you can see how everything works. Some access to IPOs at the offering price.
• Fifth Third Bank
• TheFinancialCafe.com
  Free market order electronic trades, $4.95 limit order electronic trades, online banking, mortgage, and insurance.
• First Discount Brokerage
  Full service, discount and online brokerages services.
• Firstrade
  $10 per order, $5 per NASDAQ order over 1000 shares.
• FreeTrade.com
  Free equity trades, $5 stop and limit orders. Will open a in a new window.
• FREETRADEZ
  Online broker offering 100% commission free trades (ad-based revenue).
• Freedom Investments - $15 per trade.
• Freeman Welwood
  $15/trade for market orders, $20/trade for limit orders, up to 2000 shares. Above 2000 shares are one cent per share.
• GE Financial Brokerage
• Global Access
  Nasdaq Level II trading as low as $9.95 for unlimited shares.
• Harris InvestorLine
  $13/trade for market orders, $18/trade for limit orders.
• Howe Barnes NetInvestor
  Commissions are $19 + $0.01/share. Also mutual funds, bonds, options, and CDs. Portfolio tracking, news, and research. $5000 minimum account balance.
• Interactive Broker
• INTLTRADER.com
  Trades in foreign and domestic securities.
• Investex Securities Group
  $15/trade for most trades. Also mutual funds, options, and bonds. No minimum account balance.
• InvestIN
  $10/trade. Free real-time quotes.
• InvestorLine
  $25/trade for market orders. From the Bank of Montreal. Also mutual funds.
• InvesTrade
  $8/trade for stocks. Automated touch-tone phone trading at the same price. Options trading is $1.75/contract, $15 minimum.
• Jack White & Co
  Commissions start at $12/trade. Free real-time quotes with an account. Also mutual funds. $5000 minimum account balance.
• J.B. Oxford
  Commissions start at $14.50/trade. Unlimited real time quotes. Also mutual funds, bonds, and options trading. $2000 minimum account balance. Customers receive free Internet access as long as they keep the minimum balance in the account
• Killiney Investments
  A brokerage company which offers Internet based dealing service in FX, Futures, Options and Stocks for both institutional and private investors.
• InternetTrading
• LiveTrade.com
  Live Level 2 screens, execution via all ECNs, NYSE, and portfolio management.
• LowTrades.com
  This online broker offers limit orders and market orders for $4/trade. Do your research with InvestorGuide and place cheap orders here.
• Market Touch Web
  $15/trade under 1000 shares.
• MB Trading
  Day trading. $15 to $24 per trade.
• Muriel Siebert & Co.
  $15/trade.
• Mr. Stock
  $15/trade up to 1000 shares. Also mutual funds and options.
• MyDiscountBroker.
  $12/trade up to 5000 shares.
• National Discount Brokers
  $14.75/trade for market orders, $19.75/trade for limit orders. Real time quotes. Over 7500 mutual funds. $2000 minimum account balance.
• Net-Invest
  From Capital International Securities Group. $25/trade. Also in Spanish.
• NetVest
  Discount Broker.
• Newport Discount Brokerage
  $19/trade.
• NobleTrading
  Online direct access brokerage firm offering multiple execution software packages:RealTick III, E-Signal with order entry, and the NobleTrader Level 2. Commission schedule ranges from $9.95 to $19.95.
• Norwest
• Peremel Online
• Quick and Reilly
  $15/trade for market orders, or $20 for limit orders. Also options trading. No minimum account balance.  Two ways to trade, including one with the aid of a broker.
• Regal
  $20 for Nasdaq trades of 1000 or more shares, $25 below 1000 shares, and $29 for listed trades up to 5000 shares. Unlimited real time quotes. No minimum account balance. Every tenth trade is free. Margin rate is 0.5% above the brokerage call rate.
• R.J. Forbes
  Starts at $10/trade.
• RML Trading
• RushTrade.com
• Sanford Securities - Australia.
• Schwab
  Allows you to buy and sell stocks, mutual funds, options, and Treasuries. $30 trades up to 1000 shares, or 3 cents a share for more than 1000 shares. They also offer 50 real-time quotes per trade, plus research from Credit Suisse First Boston and Hambrecht and Quist for $30/month. $5000 minimum account balance.
• ScoTTrade
  $7/trade for market orders, $12/trade for limit orders. 100 real time quotes per trade.  $2,000 account minimum.  Also options trading.
• ShareBuilder
  Buy and sell stocks in dollar amounts. No account or investment minimums. Only $2 per transaction.
• Sharex.com
• Sherry Bruce's State Discount Brokers
• Sloan Securities
• SuccessTrade.com
  For daytraders - $7.95 market and limit orders.
• Summit Trading
  Day trading. Downloadable software.
• SpeedTrader
  $15 to $20 per trade.
• Stockwalk.com
  Trade bonds and cds, too.
• SuccessTrade
  All Trades Only $9.95 a trade-includes market and limit orders.
• Sunlogic
  $16/trade.
• SureTrade
  $8/trade for market orders, $10 for limit orders, listed and OTC, up to 5000 shares. Same price for Canadian stocks.
• SwifTrade
• Tradefast
  3 cents per share, $20 minimum.
• Trade4Less
• TradeScape.com
  Geared toward active traders. $1.50 per 100 shares, free Level II quotes, Direct ECN connections. Educational products.
• TradeSecurities.com
  After-hours trading. $25,000 minimum account balance. Commissions of 6 cents per share, minimum $100.
• TradeStar
  From Savoy Stocks. $14/trade for market orders, $19/trade for limit orders. Real-time quotes.
• TradeWallStreet.com
  Full service broker providing direct access trading from $9.95/trade.
• TradeWell
• Trading Direct
  From York Securities. Commissions start at $10/trade. Also options and mutual funds. No minimum account balance.
• Trend Trader
  Day trading. Starts at $15/trade.
• T. Rowe Price
  $25/trade up to 1000 shares.
• TruTrade
  $11/trade for OTC or less than 2000 shares of listed stocks. No-fee IRA, free checkwriting, mutual funds, and low margin rates.
• USRica.com
  Trades executed for only $4.95 per trade, plus $2.50 service charge. Free Unlimited realtime quotes, online account balance.
• Vision Trade
  $15 per stock trade. Also options and mutual funds.
• Wachovia
• WR Hambrecht
  Online broker offering $20 internet and $25 broker-assisted trades
• Wall Street Access
  They focus on the active trader. Commissions start at $25/trade. 100 free real-time quotes with each trade. Also Treasuries and options trading.
• Wall Street Discount
  Starts at $20/trade.
• Wall Street Electronica
  From Winston Rodgers & Otalvaro, a full-service firm. Commissions start at $15/trade. Also bonds and options. $10,000 minimum account balance.
• Wang
  Commissions start at $5/trade. Text is in Chinese or English.
• Waterhouse webBroker
  $12/trade up to 5,000 shares. Free real-time quotes, charts, news, S&P reports, and Zacks earnings estimates. Also mutual funds. 24-hour access to a live broker.
• Web Street Securities
  $15/trade. Nasdaq trades of 1000 or more shares are commission-free. Ten second executions and one minute email confirmations. Streaming real-time portfolio management. Java-based interface.
• WellsTrade
  From Wells Fargo. $30/trade.
• White Discount Securities Online
• Wit Capital
  Stocks, mutual funds, and options.
• Wyse
  Starts at $8/trade.
• Your Discount Broker
  Day traders can pay $30 to trade in and out of any stock for a full day.
• Ziegler Thrift Trading
  $20/trade for up to 2000 shares, $0.01/share thereafter.