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Tradeking is one of the newer firms that have been recently created to provide an online platform for trading in stocks and shares. Launched on December of 2005, it has already reached dizzying heights of renown. It offers a complete array of online trading services for traders. This is the firm that pioneered the concept of online traders’ communities, forums and blogs, which allows users to interact and exchange information.

Started in 2000, OptionsXpress has rapidly captured a large portion of the market in its decade long life. The company does its operation from Chicago, Illinois. In its short life it has garnered many favorable reviews and ratings from the regular customer and well known media groups. It is rated as having an extremely user friendly interface and an intelligent mix of trading and investment options.

Today’s world exists more on the World Wide Web than in actuality. It is no surprise then to see banking and financing options becoming widely available online. Over the past decade various stock brokerage firms have built an online presence. This has given a lot of people the opportunity to trade in stocks and shares and make investments in the market.

TradeMonster is a relatively new entrant in the field of online discount brokerage. Its main executives are former associates of such brokerage giants such as E*TRADE, Fidelity, OptionsXpress etc. With a vast amount of experience between them, these executives offer to users an inexpensive access to a very professional service.

Fidelity is the market name given to two independent but closely co-operating business firms based in the US. These firms are Fidelity Management and Research LLC started in 1949 by Edward C. Johnson and Fidelity International Limited started in 1969. FMR LLC provides investment and brokerage services to North America, while FIL is the international branch, providing similar services around the world.

The Bank of America Corporation of today has undergone a series of takeovers and mergers over the years. A. P. Giannini; the founder of this conglomerate renamed his Bank of Italy as Bank of America in 1930. The organization is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is one of the largest and oldest financial services company in the United States of America.

This is one of the newest entrants into the online-broking business. Just2Trade offers a simple and low cost online trading and brokerage platform. As the name suggests, Just2Trade is a service only for trading minus the frills of a full service brokerage account. The business is managed by Success Trade Securities, a decade old market player.

Wells Fargo & Co owns and manages the WellsTrade online trading business. It is a diversified financial services company having their offices and operations around the world. The company is based in San Francisco, California and is the second largest bank (by market cap) and fourth largest bank (by assets) in the United States of America.

The T. Rowe Price Group Incorporated is a financial services holding company that was founded in 1937. It provides individuals and institutional investors alike of investment advisory services. The investment services are sponsored by the company’s mutual funds and some other investment portfolios. Through T. Rowe Price, the investment clients are also entitled to administrative services.

IB or the Interactive Brokers LLC is an online discount broker that is making waves in the business today. The company consistently gets above average marks as a software broker, plus it is one of the stems of the Barron’s that has very competitive trade costs.