Comments on: Make Your First Trade Online with Firstrade http://www.smartdivas.com/2010/01/16/make-your-first-trade-online-with-firstrade/ Investing for Women Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Day trading dude http://www.smartdivas.com/2010/01/16/make-your-first-trade-online-with-firstrade/comment-page-1/#comment-38378 Day trading dude Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:34:21 +0000 http://www.smartdivas.com/?p=1089#comment-38378 One not mentioned in the post is that it depends what kind of trading you want to do. If it's investing, by holding a few stocks for a long period of time, then you probably don't have very robust requirements. If you are day trading, then there's some very specific things you need to consider. For example, does the broker offer desktop software that streams tick data and provides free live charts (not the 5 min delayed ones)? Do they offer a per share commission structure? This can be important because trading commissions can quickly eat into your profits with frequent trading. Also, some brokers make you have a minimum account balance to get the per share structure, or make you pay a $250/month fee. It's also important to know if they accept programmed orders where one cancels the other so you can profit or cut your losses automatically. Most brokers have limit and stop orders, but it's not as common for true programmed trading. One last point, if you are day trading, there is a general rule where you must have at least $25000 in your account to do so. If you are trading once in a while then you can easily trade with as little as $100 One not mentioned in the post is that it depends what kind of trading you want to do. If it’s investing, by holding a few stocks for a long period of time, then you probably don’t have very robust requirements. If you are day trading, then there’s some very specific things you need to consider. For example, does the broker offer desktop software that streams tick data and provides free live charts (not the 5 min delayed ones)? Do they offer a per share commission structure? This can be important because trading commissions can quickly eat into your profits with frequent trading. Also, some brokers make you have a minimum account balance to get the per share structure, or make you pay a $250/month fee.

It’s also important to know if they accept programmed orders where one cancels the other so you can profit or cut your losses automatically. Most brokers have limit and stop orders, but it’s not as common for true programmed trading.

One last point, if you are day trading, there is a general rule where you must have at least $25000 in your account to do so. If you are trading once in a while then you can easily trade with as little as $100

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