Investing

May 8, 2023When trading stocks and other securities, it can be helpful to use technical indicators to assess volatility. Average true range, or ATR, is one such indicator that’s often used to track securities’ price movements over defined time periods. Though it… read more…

March 2, 2025CenterPoint Securities is for the professionals, and they mean it. This trading platform specializes in day trading and in helping investors short stocks and options. If you do this for a living and have a vast amount of money backing up… read more…

August 18, 2025For sophisticated investors, TD Ameritrade offers thinkorswim, a powerful set of investment tools oriented specifically at investors who make frequent or complex trades. If you aren’t looking for a semi-professional toolkit, with all of the complexity that entails, then you… read more…

April 1, 2023Your brokerage should offer easy-yet-sophisticated tools to manage your money and, ideally, nothing else. It certainly should not remind you of a used car dealership or the desperate hustle of some personal trainers at the gym. A trading platform known… read more…

March 31, 2023Interactive Brokers is a full-featured investment platform that has traditionally been built for professional and institutional investors. Although in the past two years it has introduced a Lite brand aimed at the retail investment crowd, the truth is that this… read more…

March 30, 2023There is not a good reason to use ChoiceTrade. This low-cost, feature-limited trading platform has been in business since 2000 and offers inexpensive options and stock trading. Unfortunately, for the modern trading world, that’s just not good enough anymore. Investors can get… read more…

April 1, 2023Investors who use TradeStation get a full-feature trading platform built with active and high-volume users in mind. It is not for newcomers or long-term, buy-and-hold investors. But if you are an experienced investor who executes frequent trades or complex trades… read more…

February 27, 2025Israel-based eToro is cryptocurrency trading platform. Unlike traditional investment platforms, it does not offer access to any form of standard financial products or assets. You cannot trade stocks, bonds, funds or options. Although investors outside of the U.S. can use… read more…

April 1, 2023There’s a reason you may not have heard of SpeedTrader. This is a niche product in a niche market. SpeedTrader is an investment platform for day traders. This product is built for professionals. Its main features, such as its ability to… read more…

March 7, 2025M1 Finance strikes a balance between the completely hands-off approach of a robo-advisor and the technical complexity of a full-service investment firm. It allows investors to build an investment portfolio based on stocks, funds and professionally managed portfolios that they… read more…

April 1, 2023Do not get paid to trade. Free money schemes are never your friend. In finance, as with most walks of life, the best tools are generally boring and don’t need such incentives to try a product. SogoTrade is no different. There… read more…

March 29, 2023If you bank with Wells Fargo and keep a low-activity portfolio, WellsTrade might be a useful platform on which to trade stocks and other securities. Current clients can use the trading screen to see all of their finances, banking and investments… read more…

August 31, 2023By now most mainstream trading platforms are free. Despite advertising itself as “low cost stock and options trading,” Lightspeed still charges trading commissions. At the same time it offers a set of highly specific tools that can benefit extremely active… read more…

February 28, 2025Firstrade is an online trading platform that offers two portals, its primary brand, Firstrade, and a secondary brand called Firstrade Navigator. They are competitively priced, offer many types of securities, including mutual funds, give users the ability to engage in sophisticated… read more…

February 28, 2025Webull is an online trading platform that allows you to trade and invest commission-free. It bills itself as primarily organized around app-based trading, although as we will note below, Webull’s more sophisticated tools make it easier to use through the… read more…

March 20, 2025Betterment has established itself as one of the most well-known standalone robo-advisors on the market. At the same time, a brokerage giant backs Fidelity Go. While both platforms come from very different beginnings, they share many similarities, such as how… read more…

April 18, 2024Interactive Brokers has been a leader in the active investing space since its start in 1993. It is not alone, however, in standing out. One of the pioneers of online brokerage firms, TD Ameritrade, offers intuitive platforms and educational resources… read more…

August 28, 2025Robinhood and E*TRADE may be the two most important names in online trading. In many ways E*TRADE introduced the world to online investments, taking stocks and bonds from the world of corner offices to kitchen tables. A couple decades later,… read more…

April 19, 2024Two of the most popular online brokerages are Robinhood and Vanguard. The former is a highly streamlined platform designed for new investors. It presents users with a clean trading interface, without the intimidating wall of information and options that can scare… read more…

July 17, 2025Online trading platform Vanguard offers a full-service securities trading capability but is best known for its huge range of mutual funds. E*TRADE, which arguably ushered in the modern era of online finance, offers a streamlined, easy-to-use day-trading app where investors can trade stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETF),… read more…

May 8, 2023Investing in the stock market can help you build a portfolio and grow wealth. But there is a certain amount of risk involved when purchasing stocks and other securities. Paper trading is something you might consider if you’re a newer… read more…

March 12, 2025Having $500,000 to your name is a massive advantage, as there are so many investing opportunities available to you. However, the principles of building a strong portfolio remain the same for all investors, regardless of their investable assets. You should… read more…

August 21, 2025Investors looking for online investing platforms choose Charles Schwab or Robinhood for two very different experiences. With Charles Schwab you will get a full-featured investment platform, with all of the opportunities and complexity that this entails. Investors using Schwab’s tools can… read more…

August 28, 2025Charles Schwab and E*TRADE are two of the most popular investment platforms available today. Both are full-service products, meaning that they support most mainstream assets and research options. Furthermore, they are largely comparable in both price and services. There are,… read more…

August 21, 2025Betterment and Robinhood are both widely accepted as popular trading platforms, but they are very different. The former is a robo-advisor, about as hands-off as you can get while still making decisions about your money; the latter is a trading… read more…