Who here actively trades stocks?

[Pliablemoose]

I have my retirement $ in long term type instruments and have "play money" I tinker around in the stock market with.

Anyone else trade actively?

What brokerage do you use?

 

[Zanix]

online broker?

 

[desk]

really depends what you mean by 'actively', but i guess i would qualify.

oh, and i use ameritrade and ameritrade izone.

 

[GroundZero]

i'll trade you some green socks for some blue ones

 

[Pliablemoose]

He he, I only wear white socks with my sandals...

I've used eTrade/Power eTrade for a long time...

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

i stick with mutual funds...probly buy or sell one every few months. I don't know enough to pick individual companies...but it isn't that hard to pick a manager that has consistantly beat or kept up with the market

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
i stick with mutual funds...probly buy or sell one every few months. I don't know enough to pick individual companies...but it isn't that hard to pick a manager that has consistantly beat or kept up with the market

I tend to follow this site: Strategy Lab I just follow the best stock picker's advice.

I'm up ~$1500 in the last month with about $10K in play money...

 

[Rapidskies]

I play around with a relatively small amount and use Ameritrade. My main retirement account is the 401k and I opened the Ameritrade account about 4 years ago to have a little fun. This year is a "heavy" trading year for me with about 25 trades (yes that is heavy for me heh).

 

[FrustratedUser]

no

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

I do. I use Scottrade.

 

[Bryophyte]

The big account: UBS.
The small accounts (one for each kid and for me): Sharebuilder.

 

[ponyo]

I was semi-active trader during the precrash go-go days. Probably did around 4-5 trades a day. Now that I actually have to work for a living and can't follow the market everyday, I do minor swing trade when given a chance but mostly buy and hold. My trade accounts are with TD Waterhouse and Ameritrade. My buy and hold accounts are with Wachovia and JD Edwards. Why? I pay higher commission with Wachovia and JD Edwards and that makes me want to trade less which is my goal for buy and hold accounts.

 

[Sex Smurf]

Schwab account. Been patiently watching my holdings go up. . . just as I planned. . . .

 

[drnickriviera]

This is my first year of actively trading. I have a scottrade account, but realized that even at $7, i'm leaving a good bit of money on the table. I've opened an interactive brokers account. $1 per 100, .005 per share over 500

If there's enough interest, i'm wondering if we could start an ATOT stock picking thread

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: drnickriviera
This is my first year of actively trading. I have a scottrade account, but realized that even at $7, i'm leaving a good bit of money on the table. I've opened an interactive brokers account. $1 per 100, .005 per share over 500

If there's enough interest, i'm wondering if we could start an ATOT stock picking thread

I like that idea...