An individual/entity who helps buy or sell a tradable asset. Often used with stocks, bonds, options, foreign-exchange. Related tag is brokerage, the fees charged by the broker.
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What rules must your broker follow when buying/selling shares for you at the market price?
When you buy/sell shares at market price (not using limits), what rules must your broker follow?
Two scenarios:
You tell your broker to sell shares at market price. The broker buys the shares ...
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What is the market rate of non-cash ISA fund administration fee in UK?
A friend of mine suggested a plan that takes a 1% administration fee (from the assets deposited) regardless of the type of investment you make (stock, bond etc.). This sounded quite high from my ...
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Most cost-effective way to purchase individual bonds?
I am trying to determine the most cost effective way to go about purchasing individual corporate and municipal bonds that I intend to hold until maturity.
Is there great variation in the fees and ...
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Do online brokers use market makers?
If I use an online broker such as Trade King or Scottrade to buy shares of some company, how do they buy the shares? Do they have to go through a market maker? Is there a notion of the broker ...
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Can an online broker charge a fee just for registration, without any deposit?
Can any broker like TD, TradeKing, Schwab, etc, can charge me just because I have entered my details and open an account in their website?
Even if I didn't deposit anything?
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Should I open an individual 401k account?
I am looking for some advice on what to do with the Money from a previous employer 401k.
I currently have the checks that were issued to the trust of my new employer's 401k service. I have not sent ...
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What do brokerage firms do?
So in the past, before they had computers, I imagined brokerage was the fee given to a stock broker to give you advice on what stocks to buy, or to ring up and make a trade for you.
But now ...
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Understanding the concepts of market maker and broker
Wikipedia says:
A market maker is a company, or an individual, that quotes both a buy
and a sell price in a financial instrument or commodity held in
inventory, hoping to make a profit on the ...
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Where to find a list of online U.K. stock brokers that permit trading in U.S. stock markets?
I am currently a beginner investor, in the U.K., and I would like to know what are the best online international stock brokers. That is, I wish to trade stocks that are listed on U.S. stock exchanges. ...
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Which USA Brokerage Firms can I transfer my India stocks to?
I would like to know which US brokerage firms I can transfer my India stocks to, after finding out my current brokerage (TD Ameritratde) requires doing so...
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How do I invest and buy/sell stocks? What does “use a broker” mean?
This is an embarrassingly basic question. I'm a college student and know very, very little about the world of investing and purchasing stocks. I realize that some Googling could find me the answer ...
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What are Binary Options?
What are binary options, what can they be traded on and what is the process in trading them?
Also, are there any brokers in Australia who offer binary options?
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Which forex brokerage should I choose if I want to fund my account with over a million dollars?
I'm quite experienced with stock markets (mostly NYSE and NASDAQ in fact), over 85% of my wealth comes from it. In 2012 I would like to try the foreign exchange market, can you suggest any reliable ...
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If a brokerage commits fraud (by not separating customer funds), is there any SIPC protection?
Recent news on MF Global suggests the possibility that the brokerage firm did not segregate customer accounts.
Suppose I have an account at MF Global and suppose they have failed to segregate my ...
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Is it possible to buy commodity ETFs (e.g. silver) through Questrade?
Is there a way to buy a silver ETF through Questrade? Or do they offer only mutual funds?
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How do you go about buying currency futures for foreign currencies?
I was interested in buying currency futures for some foreign currencies. How do you go about getting these?
I am looking for 6 to 12 month futures.
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Scottrade cash interest?
I'm looking into opening a Scottrade account in the future, and was wondering if they pay interest on cash in your brokerage account? Are the rates published anywhere?
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Why the need for human brokers while there are computers?
In this day and age there are still human brokers on the trading floor. Computers are perfectly capable of negotiating a deal (buy/sell) in milliseconds when ordered to do so. So why are there still ...
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What is the difference between a 'trader' and a 'stockbroker'?
Are the two terms referring to the same person?
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Broker fees: Who gets the spread?
If one uses an online brokerage, or like my bank which offers me 100 free trades per year and I thus have no broker, who gets the spread?
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Do investors go long option contracts when they cannot cover the exercise of the options?
Consider I want to buy some american-style call options for a particular stock, and suppose this underlying stock 'XYZ' is valued at $100 a share.
Suppose I go long (buy) 10 option contracts for XYZ ...
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Can you help me find an ETF Selection website that evaluates my ETF holdings?
I came across a website that charged a fee and told me which ETFs I should be buying. Unlike a traditional website, I remember this website telling me that the ETF I have invested a year ago is not ...
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How do I find a broker that is good at providing forex trading (i.e. foreign exchange / currency)?
How do I find a broker that is good at providing forex trading (i.e. foreign exchange / currency)?
Where should I look to learn about what brokers have in terms of brokerage, leverage, and software ...
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No transaction fee ETF trades - what's the catch?
I just noticed TD Ameritrade has program where you can trade from a list of ETFs with zero fees.
Sounds like it could save me a bit of money, but my cynical side wonders how they make money off such ...
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Where can I buy stocks if I only want to invest a little bit at a time, and not really be involved in trading?
(I'm like the guy asking that question "Shares; are they really only for the rich/investors?":)
I would like to invest £50 (or $50) here and there from time to time. (I choose the companies I like.) ...
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Since many brokers disallow investors from shorting sub-$5 stocks, why don't all companies split their stock until it is sub-$5
Seems like a no-brainer? I guess if your security is not marginable, it can't be bought long on margin either, but I would also guess for most companies there are more margined shorts than margined ...
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Brokerage Fees for Covered Call Options
I have been doing some research and am thinking of selling a Covered Call on a stock I currently own and am planning on holding long term. I would like to make an Out-of-the-Money Covered Call (OTM ...
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How do I find a “bare-bones” discount broker to invest in many markets (mostly US) from outside the US?
I'm looking for a discount broker to trade by myself. I am not looking for a fancy interface, news service or trading advices, rather a bare-bones broker that will enable me to trade in various ...
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Can you recommend some good websites/brokers for buying/selling stocks in India?
Could you please recommend some good websites/online share trading portals/brokers for buying/selling stocks in India? Some desired qualities...
Low brokerage
Ease of use (all transactions should be ...
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Online Foreign Exchange Brokerages: Which ones are good & reputable for smaller trades?
I've been recently looking at some of the online (electronic) foreign exchange brokerages out there, mainly out of curiosity. However, swamped by the choice, and despite having a somewhat decent idea ...
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Rules for Broker Behavior with Covered Calls
When selling covered calls, there are a couple of things a broker could do if the stock has a sharp increase. Here's an example:
Buy Stock: $100
Sell Call $120@1month: $1
Two days later, the stock ...
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How does one find a good stock broker that accepts foreign credit cards or paypal?
Is there a good stock brokerage company that I can trade with, via international credit cards or paypal? I live in Israel.
What I basically want from such a broker is:
Reliability
Ability to ...
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Stability of a Broker: What if your broker goes bankrupt? Could you lose equity in your account?
What exactly happens if a broker runs out of funds? Could you actually lose equity in your account? If so, what should you be examining when looking at the financial report of your broker?
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Fee structure when Opening Two Accounts with One Broker
I have a traditional IRA account that I want to move to a Interactive Brokers. I would also like to invest some non-IRA money with that same broker. However, there's a minimum balance and minimum ...
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Can you recommend a good broker through which a UK company can trade in US stock markets?
Anybody can recommend a good broker through which a UK company can trade in US stock markets?
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What's the differences between a discount broker and a regular broker?
What are the differences between a discount broker and a regular broker? "Discount" implies a price difference... but why can they be cheaper than regular brokers??
