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Tips on Brokerage

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Brief Summary of Brokerages

  1. Charles Schwab is a great choice for individual brokerage account without the need of algorithmic trading.

  2. Fedelity is a good brokerage for retirement (401K, IRA, etc) accounts.

  3. QuantConnect is a good choice for algorithmic trading.

Brokerage Fees Live
Online
Chat
Cash
Sweep
Program
Retirement
Accounts
Market Analysis
& Research Report
Algorithmic
Trading
API Data
Quality
Charles Schwab Low 24/7 Yes Great Yes
eTrade Low Yes No No
Fidelity Low Yes Yes Yes No
Vanguard Low No Yes Yes No
Iteractive Brokerage High Yes Yes High
QuantRocket Yes
QuantConnect Yes
Alpaca Low No Yes Low [1]

[1]: Alpaca allows connecting to other paid high quality data sources, e.g., .

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