I have been a regular investor for past 4.5 years. I still consider myself as a medium level investor, still have a 8-5 job but I am working towards my retirement. Goal is to become financially independent by 2012 (if the world doesn’t come to an end by then, I will be able to retire and live a modest life with the investment money).
Over my several years of experience of investing, I have realized the two most important things you require from your brokerage firms are :
- Availability of data / information: It means how a particular stock is performing relative to the market. Is the stock overpriced, underpriced? Are the rating agencies recommending to hold, sell or buy a particular stock? Another aspect of the information you should be interested in is the market trend and industry vertical analysis. You want to balance your portfolio by investing in diverse sectors to minimize the risk.
- Ability to perform trades anywhere and anytime: As we all understand investment opportunities sometimes vanish away in seconds. The ability to have access to all the data and be able to trade at lightning speeds is very important when you want to make choices of an intelligent investor.
ETrade was always highly regarded for making the information available to its customers with little to no delay. Recently they have started focusing on upgrading their trading tools and using latest technology to help customers in trading. Their new trading tools can help you analyze through tons of data very quickly and help you make your decision of the stock you want to invest in.
Their latest offering makes them pioneer on the second requirement as well, i.e. ability to trade on the go. ETrade now offers a blackberry access to ETrade Mobile Pro when you open a new account with them. The blackberry offers you access to internet almost anywhere and the Mobile platform allows you to trade any location and at any time
Investment in stocks is not an easy thing and is not for everybody but with the latest offering eTrade is enabling it to be much simpler for a common man.
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