After the bearish market of 2007-09, Kiplinger surveryed it’s readers to find out that customers are more interested in costs and commissions than overall services offered by their online broker.
With that in mind, the 2011 version of Kiplinger’s stock broker rating focuses on cost-saving brokers that offer exceptional web services.
- Fidelity (5 stars)
- TD Ameritrade (5 stars)
- E*Trade (4 1/2 stars)
- Vangaurd (4 1/2 stars)
- Charles Schwab ( 4 stars)
- optionsXpress (4 stars)
- Scottrade (3 1/2 stars)
- TradeKing (4 1/2 stars)
- Firstrade (3 stars)
- Merrill Edge (3 stars)
- Zecco (3 stars)
- Just2Trade (2 1/2 stars)
- Muriel Siebert (2 1/2 stars)
- USAA (2 stars)