Review of FirsTrade.com
It has been over a year since I started using FirsTrade.com for my Individual IRA Account.
The basics of FirsTrade.com is that they offer $6.95 Stock Trades, free real-time quotes and research tools. The company has been very good to work with. I have had to call customer service only once, and I had a real person on the phone within 5 minutes…which is acceptable.
FirsTrade.com has a clean, easy to follow trading platform. The only issue that I’ve run into is that when I try to place a market order, I get an error message, and I’m, basically, required to place my order as a limit order. Other than that, I’m quite impressed with FirsTrade.com and have recommended them to friends.
My only suggestion to the company is that they allow you to make a trade order, and view a real time quote, on the same screen. As their software is currently configured, you are sent to a different screen when you request a quote.
For what it is worth, I had been sitting on about 50% cash in my retirement account for almost a year. I went heavy into the market on last Wednesday after the “mini crash” that we experienced. I picked up some great companies at pretty nice discounts to what I feel they are truly worth, and I’m hopeful they will grow nicely over the long term.
I would love to have a comment about what you were investing in last week!!!
Happy Trading and Investing!
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August 17th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Are those rates dependent on the quantity?
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September 1st, 2011 at 6:57 am
fas, I dont foresee the rates being dependent on the quantity, I think its a fixed number of trades. I could be wrong though.
-Jean
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August 21st, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Givea try als to scottrade dot com ..It cost 7$ every stock trade but it’s a very good reputaton as I know.
Regarding stock’s picks I can’t help you,sorry
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August 24th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
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August 25th, 2011 at 6:01 am
I haven’t traded in awhile, been stuck on long run positions that I’ve held out and never closed the positions. I am not too familiar with FirsTrade so I can’t really speak for that. Since you’ve used it for a year now, it must be pretty good!
-Jean
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September 2nd, 2011 at 6:43 am
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October 3rd, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Well thanks for the comprehensive review. Do these guys have mobile and ipad apps that i can use without loggin to their websites? pls let me know.
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January 11th, 2012 at 11:43 am
Great review of FirsTrade.com Sounds like they have a decent price on trades.
- Robert
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