I've done some extensive searching for an online broker that suits my needs (low cost, fast website that doesn't go down during peak trading hours, ability to trade options and penny stocks, minimum initial deposit of >= $1000...), and I've had a bitch of a time... anyone have any advice for me?
Here is one page with very extensive (and uptodate, it appears) reviews of different online brokers. Gomez.com also has a good online broker review page. Gomez.com also has great forums where actual users talk about all of the different firms.
The especially frustrating thing to me is that the reviews simply don't match up! For example, gomez.com raves about etrade.com, while the first page that I link to says that Etrade has had horrible customer support issues and doesn't recommend that anyone join up with them!
Is this guy kidding? Comparing someone who skipped college and is *completely* self-taught to someone with a computer science degree and background in the theory of computer science is like comparing a car mechanic to the engineer who designed the car.
Sure, this guy may be able to program ActiveX and whatever new buzzword bullshit web "programming" technology there is... But could he even come close to performing some kind of *real* computer science task? I seriously doubt it.
My grandma could learn HTML... He may be able to make a fine living off of making web pages... But it *certainly* isn't people like waldo who are going to lead the information revolution into the 21st century....
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I've done some extensive searching for an online broker that suits my needs (low cost, fast website that doesn't go down during peak trading hours, ability to trade options and penny stocks, minimum initial deposit of >= $1000...), and I've had a bitch of a time... anyone have any advice for me?
Here is one page with very extensive (and uptodate, it appears) reviews of different online brokers. Gomez.com also has a good online broker review page. Gomez.com also has great forums where actual users talk about all of the different firms.
The especially frustrating thing to me is that the reviews simply don't match up! For example, gomez.com raves about etrade.com, while the first page that I link to says that Etrade has had horrible customer support issues and doesn't recommend that anyone join up with them!
Wait a second! What is that graphic that you reference http://img.cmpnet.com/eet/news/00/january/1096ditz el.gif ? some kind of leak from transmeta or something? or just something that someone drew up from the patents?
WHAT A STUD!!! at least he went out in style!
Is this guy kidding? Comparing someone who skipped college and is *completely* self-taught to someone with a computer science degree and background in the theory of computer science is like comparing a car mechanic to the engineer who designed the car.
Sure, this guy may be able to program ActiveX and whatever new buzzword bullshit web "programming" technology there is... But could he even come close to performing some kind of *real* computer science task? I seriously doubt it.
My grandma could learn HTML... He may be able to make a fine living off of making web pages... But it *certainly* isn't people like waldo who are going to lead the information revolution into the 21st century....
-Josh