TDameritrade Question

[d4mo]

So I'm looking to get into the stock market. I would like to use a online trader, and it's looking like I want to go with either scottrade or tdameritrade. I like the layout of scottrades site better, but I like that tdameritrade has electronic fund transfers.

But the thing i'm wondering is that, why on TDameritrade, the EPS is listed as a percentage? I've never seen that on any site, and I don't even really know what that number means as a percentage. Check out this quote for example http://research.tdameritrade.c...entals.asp?symbol=MSFT . As compared to this: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT . I prefer the EPS listed as a number as opposed to the percentage. And I don't even really know what that EPS on Ameritrade is a percentage of.

Does anyone have any info on this, or maybe if it can be customized to show a number?

 

[alien42]

you are looking at EPS growth %

EPS. by quarter, is right here - http://research.tdameritrade.c.../earnings/earnings.asp

 

[Beev]

Are you going to manage it all yourself, or are you going to consult a third party?

 

[d4mo]

I will be managing it myself.

How to I figure out the EPS for the trailing 12 months (TTM) from that chart? The reason I want to know is because I like to use yahoo as a cross reference, and I can't seem to match the numbers at all.

 

[gotsmack]

Its not real EPS, its the growth rate of EPS over the past 5 years. It might be best if you picked up a book on technical trading first.

I have TD Ameritrade and here is my pro/con list

Pros:
I get $7 trades www.tdameritrade.com/7
24 hour customer service

Cons:
no longer accepts direct deposit
crap interest rate.

do yourself a favor and open your first account at a one stop shop like Fidelity or Schwab, depending on how much money you/your household have to invest. If it is under 50K use Schwab

 

[LuckyTaxi]

i like sharebuilder. deposit money into my account and it's available the next business day before the market opens.
it's $9/trade but i dont mind paying the extra $2 since i dont trade that often. scottrade takes 3 days to do ACH and the same goes for TD.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
i like sharebuilder. deposit money into my account and it's available the next business day before the market opens.
it's $9/trade but i dont mind paying the extra $2 since i dont trade that often. scottrade takes 3 days to do ACH and the same goes for TD.

I have Bank of America and Scotttrade.
The only negative for me with Scottrade was that they don't have a dividend reinvestment plan.
I don't care so much about ACH because I'm not a day/active trader anyway.

Bank of America is available the next business day before market open as well if you transfer the money from your checking account.
Same with Wells Fargo also, I believe.