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Online brokers are a dime a dozen these days. It is more important then ever to select one that has staying power and will best suit your needs.

There are a few differences in brokerage accounts that the customer should be aware of before setting up an account and sending money or stock certificates.

The first thing to understand is yourself, what are you going to be doing? Investing or Trading?

If you will be trading then you will want a service that has top of the line stock quotes and stock charting tools. It will all need to be real time quotes and free of charge. Trade execution times will be of utmost importance, you don't want to place a buy and have to wait 5 minutes for it to be executed. In today's market the stock could make a huge move in 5 minutes. The price per trade will be very important, the more you pay per trade the less you make.

If you are only interested in investing in companies then you will want a broker who has great resources for pulling up research reports. The broker needs to have excellent human resources for answering any questions related to a company that you are doing research on. The price to buy shares should be low but not as critical since you will not be trading that often.

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