In a $606 million dollar cash and stock deal Thinkorswim has agreed to be bought out by TD Ameritrade. The move reiterates TD Ameritrade’s strength in the competitive marketplace and is a step in the right direction for its overall growth strategy.

After announcing TradeKing’s 3rd Anniversory and their accomplishment of topping 100,000 total accounts earlier this week we became curious to find out how other competing brokers were doing. We discovered that Etrade and Schwab both put TradeKing to shame with record growth numbers of their own.

Celebrating its third year anniversary today announced that it has over doubled its client base in the 2008 year, surpassed 100,000 total users, and set a record for the month of October.
Like other top discount brokers TradeKing has reaped the rewards of thousands of investors moving away from managed funds with mutual funds, hedge [...]

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Zecco, the $0 stock trades broker, has finished its trade quality and execution research and published the results which were positive across the board. Highlights include execution time of 1.07 seconds average for trades and 59% of orders executed at better prices than the National Best Bid or Offer (aka NBBO).

Scottrade has launched a new initiative to promote financial education. Every month Scottrade branches will be hosting free seminars on investing open to both members and the general public. Also four new financial calculators were released on their website to help calculate the costs of planning for major life expenses.

TD Ameritrade is opening the doors to their branches throughout the United States and offering free checkups of your portfolio. The offer is open to both current clients and anyone interested in free financial advice, good until the end of December.

Zecco, the top online stock broker that offers $0 stock trades has just released their brand new logo. With a community of over 150,000 members a new logo is a smart move and takes their professional brand to a new level.