November 14, 2010 – 7:33 am
While markets continue to confound individual investors as they sit on their hands pondering what to do next, active investors continue to trade and trade a lot. Perhaps that’s why Interactive Brokers ($IBKR) disclosed a tender offer for more than 6% of Tradestation ($TRAD) stock.
And it seems to be a good match for a [...]
It’s always a good idea to check out what’s being advertised to see what the financial product firms are pushing. Some of this is horse-leading-the-cart stuff, but sometimes financial products are developed based on demand for such things. Looking at advertising in the financial industry is a momentum-driven way to look at trends [...]
By New Rules of Investing
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged brokers, commodities, etf, etrade, finance, financial advertising, financial advisors, financial reporting, forex, fx, industry news, investing, investment site, mlp, new products, reuters, seeking alpha, tradestream
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TD Ameritrade CEO on Forbes. Won’t say yes to E*Trade but won’t say no, either.
August 21, 2009 – 6:13 am
Well, that’s interesting. Ameritrade, and for that matter, most of the online brokers, are typically slow assimilating new acquisitions and then rolling out technology or services to their existing client base. Not this time. The January 2009 purchase of trading platform, Think or Swim, augered interesting things for the online heavy weight. But the Corporate [...]
It’s been a truism that the secret to runaway success in technology has always been in platform building. I learned about the intricacies of building platform leadership from a book by the same name, “Platform Leadership” which I read during my MBA. The book by Gawer and Cusumano detailed how Cisco, Intel and Microsoft drove [...]
By Zack Miller
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Posted in Stock market
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Also tagged broker, etrade, finance, financial advisors, industry news, investment, investment site, online broker, platform, td ameritrade, technology, trading
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Full(er) Service and DIY Investing: Investor Fork in the Road There is no doubt we are witnessing a wholesale exodus of assets out of full-service brokers like Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. These assets seem to be finding two very different types of homes: boutique investment advisory houses: Built by brokers/advisors who themselves have defected [...]
