Scottrade is one of the largest online stock brokers in the world, housing millions of clients and thousands of employees. They have 358 local branch offices throughout the United States which allow customers to come in and get live help and guidance from Scottrade representatives.
Some of the reasons for investors to choose stock broker Scottrade over its competitors are:
1. Online Stock Trades are just $7
2. Just $500 to Open an Account
3. No Fee IRAs
4. Exceptional Customer Service
5. Chinese Language Services
6. Account Linking to other Scottrade Accounts
7. Real-Time Account Balances and Free Streaming Quotes
8. Free Cost Basis Accounting
9. Low Margin Rates
10. Complimentary Dow Jones News
11. No Inactive Account or Account Maintenance Fees
12. $25,000,000 Account Protection
The services Scottrade offers its clients are in fact impressive. They have also won numerous awards for customer service, taking #1 spots year over year. Finally, they also have an award winning trading platform called ScottradeELITE which is built exclusively for active traders.
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Never been a huge fan, those commercials with the helicopter are cool though
The problem I had with Scottrade were speed issues and the site just never seemed to run well for me. They do have great tools though and the $500 minimum is convenient for smaller investors.
Helicopter commercials were a nice touch.
Definitely, wonder if we can brand one of those for the site?
Only thing I really don't like about Scottrade, is the inability to take advantage of DRIP's for longer term buys. If you're going to hold onto a stock for a couple of years, and it pays dividends, it's almost like losing money by not being able to be enrolled in DRIP
Dear
Do you have branches in europe?
if yes how to open an account ?
regard
Charbel Trad
I know Scottrade has operations in China but you will simply need to go to the site to find the information you seek.
I believe Etrade has operations in Europe,
http://www.stocktradingtogo.com/2008/07/20/etrade-financial-online-stock-broker-speed-review/
I signed up with scottrade.com and got 3 free trades with this promo code: HESJ1527
I think they require a $500 minimum to get the free trades. Still a great deal.
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I find scottrade one of the worse trading houses available. They will never give you a market fill. They have been known to give fills 20 cents from the market. If you can make money with these guys your a genius..
I hope you don't have the troubles with Scottrade that I have had. Their website has issues, everybody knows that, it's slow, it stops, it misses trades but that's not the worst of it. Their customer service is pretty bad. Rude people who are way too casual about a customer having a problem. They are way to relaxed about being of no help, they just couldn't care less. They can't do this and they can't do that and they lost the other thing.
I've been a customer of Scottrade for a few years now. They make several thousand dollars a year off of me. But whenever I have to deal with an actual person, it's a nightmare!
Emailing you now Simeon. I am sorry to hear that.