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How to find the best online stock trading broker with all the best features ?

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How to find the best online stock trading broker with all the best features ?

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Bear markets aren’t all bad. Consider one byproduct of the 2000-02 meltdown. As their portfolios shriveled, many investors hunkered down and stopped trading. That sparked an old-fashioned price war among online brokers, and commissions tumbled. Sparse trading also spurred industry consolidation. Gone are such discounters as BrownCo, Datek, Harrisdirect and Waterhouse. The survivors are providing customers with more services than when we last surveyed the group, in October 2004. For this in-depth look at online brokers, we examined 11 firms, including the remaining major players as well as several small shops you may not have heard of. We looked at their prices and offerings for two kinds of people: those with more than $50,000 to invest and those with more than $500,000 to invest. The winner, in both categories, is a relatively new firm, OptionsXpress. Muriel Siebert & Co. comes in second, also in both categories. Wells Fargo finishes third. Only when you get to fourth place does accou

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