commissions, charles schwab vs. td waterhouse
charles schwab charges a $29.95 for all order types up to 1000 shares, or 3¢ per share for orders over 1000 shares.
td waterhouse charges $17.95 for market orders up to 2500 shares, or 1¢ per share for orders over 2500 shares. there is an extra $3 surchage for limit, stop, and stop-limit orders. (if you have $250,000 in assets, the base commission is $12. it goes down even further for frequent trading.)
(there are other brokerages that charge lower commissions, but don’t offer some of the other services i want. obviously your choice of brokerage may depend on more than the commissions charged on stock transactions. it was just one factor for me. but if you sign up with td waterhouse, let me know so i can get the referral and we both get three free trades. you can also get a month of free trades via an offer advertised on finance.yahoo.com.)
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FWIW I've been quite happy with
DatekAmeritrade. I also have an (SEP)IRA account with Ameritrade. I'm still using the Datek UI for my trading, but they wrote that they are going to change us over to the Ameritrade UI soonish so they must have improved it a bit.Trades (market and limit) are $11 or $12. If you have more than $x in your account you get free services (not anything useful, at least not to me), but not cheaper trades.