The trend of commission-free, online trading platforms makes investing more accessible to more people, especially as account minimums disappear. It's important to understand that when an online broker ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. There is no such thing as a “discount broker ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. There is no such thing as a “discount broker ...

Capital at risk. The value of your investments can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest. If you aim to grow your wealth and hopefully beat inflation along the way, you might ...

Amid a market selloff, the commission-free online brokerage app Robinhood is seeing its third outage in two weeks. Online brokerage app Robinhood is seeing outages amid another day of heavy trading ...

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Social-media startup Stocktwits has officially kicked off a commission-free trading platform just as a fee war on Wall Street has reached white-hot levels. Stocktwits has unfurled this week a ...

There is no such thing as a “discount broker” anymore. In the span of just a few days last week, nearly every major online brokerage company eliminated commissions. It’s now essentially free to trade.