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.

This week Scottrade officially opened its doors to the public for viewing its new financial Community of Scottrade members. The Scottrade social network is designed to build customer knowledge, relationships, and promote investor education.

With so many online stock brokers to choose from it can be tough to sort through all the advertisements you see throughout the web. It seems that the bigger the stock broker the more money they have to spend on a variety of different advertisements targeted at investors.

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.

Top Online Stock Brokers are constantly coming up with new and innovative tools to help traders combat the stock market.
Recently online brokers TD Ameritrade and Scottrade have developed new trading tools that can be used allus investors.

Scottrade contacted us and is spreading the word on their brand new mutual funds center they just launched. The center will give clients a brand new easy to use screener to search funds, expense information, and even ratings to help clients choose the best one.

Scottrade recently released its newest tool that allows for quick and easy to understand analysis called SmartText.
SmartText is designed to allow for market analysis on not only individual stock charts, but also sectors & industries, and also provides analysis of company earnings reports.

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