Thread: How Do You Trade?

really want to switch to a place that give some free trades anyone got a good reccomendation sharebuilder charges is too much, i paid 8 every trade and 12 for premium

Nothing is free so take the $12/month but buy only dividend paying stocks and you'll be even before you realize it. Dividend reinvestments are free and pay every three months - good luck in building your base. You'll be pleasantly surprised how fast your stocks will grow.

Law87,

You can get 30 free trades with Merrill Edge online per month but you'd have to put up $25K on the Bank of America banking side - I'm starting to build that now that we've had a 100% increase in the SPX.

Originally Posted by Birchtree

Nothing is free so take the $12/month but buy only dividend paying stocks and you'll be even before you realize it. Dividend reinvestments are free and pay every three months - good luck in building your base. You'll be pleasantly surprised how fast your stocks will grow.

i like the rush of investing in etf more. it keep me engage. i dont have 25k yet do you know anywhere that will be cheap? so far i see optionhouse is the cheapest

Originally Posted by Birchtree

Nothing is free so take the $12/month but buy only dividend paying stocks and you'll be even before you realize it. Dividend reinvestments are free and pay every three months - good luck in building your base. You'll be pleasantly surprised how fast your stocks will grow.

How do you know if the stock pays dividends vs. those that don't?

#1, you can do a google search for the stock ticker symbol youre interested in knowing about + the word "dividend" (IE: "DIS dividend") usually gives you a few leads..... http://www.dividend.com/ is usually one of the first results, but you may prefer other sites.

Look for Div/Yield. Google has a stock screener where you can select the range for the Div/Yield of stocks. Try the stock symbol KO as an example.
Value Line can also give you stats on dividend paying stock.

Originally Posted by Nate

#1, you can do a google search for the stock ticker symbol youre interested in knowing about + the word "dividend" (IE: "DIS dividend") usually gives you a few leads..... http://www.dividend.com/ is usually one of the first results, but you may prefer other sites.

Great site. Thanks for the help!

Here is more info on where to find dividend paying stocks.
http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answ...end_stocks.asp

Originally Posted by jpcavin

Look for Div/Yield. Google has a stock screener where you can select the range for the Div/Yield of stocks. Try the stock symbol KO as an example.
Value Line can also give you stats on dividend paying stock.

Thanks. I'll try it out. Learning a lot!