Most
active share traders will fail to beat the market, and would do better in index funds.
Not exact matches
Does
sharing ideas and actions with a community help make individual
active traders successful?
The firm offers three commission plans — flat - fee, per
share / per contract and unbundled pricing plan (the latter two which will be attractive to
active traders).
Interactive Brokers makes it easy to
share tips, tricks and successes with other
active traders.
When it comes to short - selling, one of the recurring comments from
active traders is the challenge obtaining securities — however with this new program in place there might be an interesting mechanism for Questrade to monetize interest in short - selling and / or moderate the availability of
shares to short.
The company's per -
share / per - contract commission plan is more attractive to
active traders.
Active traders — those who make high volume
share trades — have the choice of 1 cents per
share (1 cents minimum / $ 6.95 maximum), or a $ 4.95 flat stock commission charge.
Although their list of achievements include free ETFs, very mature trading platforms, quality customer service, IPOs, and a comprehensive developer platform, their most impressive feature has to go to being able to execute trades as low as 1 cents per
share (1 cents minimum for
active traders; $ 4.95 minimum for non-
active traders).
Alex has been an
active trader for his entire adult life, beginning in the early 2000s when he successfully bet against the market on
shares of WorldCom's crumbling stock.
It claims to have over 2 million
active traders sharing ideas, providing feedback and using its free stock and forex charting trading platform every month.