Comments on: Top online brokers http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/top-online-brokers/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:52:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Smac20 http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/top-online-brokers/comment-page-1/#comment-37117 Smac20 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:54:31 +0000 http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/?p=370#comment-37117 I have used a couple of different online brokers and decided in the end that for me the best is Questrade. Take a look at why I think this to be so at http://www.investingincanada.info/2009/08/best-online-broker-in-canada-2009-2010.html Tell me what you think? Cost was my biggest issue. I have used a couple of different online brokers and decided in the end that for me the best is Questrade. Take a look at why I think this to be so at http://www.investingincanada.info/2009/08/best-online-broker-in-canada-2009-2010.html

Tell me what you think? Cost was my biggest issue.

]]> By: justme http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/top-online-brokers/comment-page-1/#comment-12773 justme Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:18:52 +0000 http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/?p=370#comment-12773 Thier 'log in' page is the same as the public site, this slows down the process of log in. You will quickly find this very annoying since you will be logging in many times a day on account of thier servers logging you out constantly. Surviscor does not look at how the site pages are written and could not tell you that the credential public site has 117 html errors and 3 warnings, another reason for a slow loading log in page. Thier cookies are some times poorly written and will not overwrite the old one and again you will find yourself having to manually delete the old one for things to work properly. Since the implementation of the discontinuation of 'all or none', Credential Direct has had a error on one of thier pages that has not been resolved. Repeated emails and a telephone call, although answered promptly, did not result in a repair of this problem. A new trader will find it very hard to reach the target for the 9.95 fee with what they have to offer since thier tools and education are sometimes inferior to what can be found for free on the internet. As for commissions, a company would only have to slash the cost by mere pennies to beat out other competitors. If this is the best online broker Canada has to offer than us investor/trader's are beat before we start. Thier ‘log in’ page is the same as the public site, this slows down the process of log in.
You will quickly find this very annoying since you will be logging in many times a day on account of thier servers logging you out constantly. Surviscor does not look at how the site pages are written and could not tell you that the credential public site has 117 html errors and 3 warnings, another reason for a slow loading log in page. Thier cookies are some times poorly written and will not overwrite the old one and again you will find
yourself having to manually delete the old one for things to work properly. Since the implementation of the discontinuation of ‘all or none’, Credential Direct
has had a error on one of thier pages that has not been resolved. Repeated emails and a telephone call, although answered promptly, did not result in
a repair of this problem. A new trader will find it very hard to reach the target for the 9.95 fee with what they have to offer since thier tools and education
are sometimes inferior to what can be found for free on the internet. As for commissions, a company would only have to slash the cost by mere pennies
to beat out other competitors. If this is the best online broker Canada has to offer than us investor/trader’s are beat before we start.

]]> By: Vlad http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/top-online-brokers/comment-page-1/#comment-2597 Vlad Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:40:03 +0000 http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/?p=370#comment-2597 Credential's site seems good but has some problems, notably that you can't place trailing stop orders (which save a lot of work) and you can't do strategy option trades (you must enter each component trade separately, which can be dangerous in some situations). Their demo is interesting, but too brief. Credential’s site seems good but has some problems, notably that you can’t place trailing stop orders (which save a lot of work) and you can’t do strategy option trades (you must enter each component trade separately, which can be dangerous in some situations). Their demo is interesting, but too brief.

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