Best Online Broker, Barrons
The Best Online Brokers
"As its name suggests, OptionsHouse has a lot of great tools for the options trader. Backed by market maker PEAK6, this broker lets its retail customers use quite a few professional-level tools. Building a spread is very intuitive on this system, as is rolling a call or put from one strike to another. The site's motto is 'Fast matters,' and that goes for everything from finding possible trades to populating an order ticket to executing the trade itself.
Portfolio-analysis tools are top-notch here, too. The Risk Viewer includes a what-if calculator showing what could happen based on various market scenarios.
OptionsHouse also offers the Maxit tax-management tool for free. Although this is a Web-based platform, it has the flexibility and power of many of the software platforms."
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So we let Barron's do it for us.
-Barron's 2009 Online Broker Survey
| Us vs. Them | star rating |
| 1. OptionsHouse | 4.7 |
| 2. thinkorswim | 4.6 |
| 3. optionsXpress | 4.5 |
| 4. E*TRADE | 4.4 |
| 5. Charles Schwab | 4.2 |
Investing tools
that have people talking
- "Portfolio-analysis tools are top-notch"
- "Very intuitive"
- "Professional-level tools"
- "Great tools for the options trader"
- -Barron's 2009 Online Broker Survey
