Barron's 2017 Best Online Broker Rankings

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  1. Steven Leeds

    Steven Leeds

    Good morning fellow options traders. A beautiful day here on Florida's Gulf Coast. A high of 74 predicted for today, warm enough for a gin and tonic at the beach this afternoon. And so it will be.

    Today's Barron's magazine features its 22nd annual rankings of what it has determined to be the "Best Online Brokers."

    The link to the article is:

    http://www.barrons.com/articles/barrons-2017-best-online-broker-ranking-1489811850
    Note: To get past Barron's paywall cut and paste the link into Google (or IE/Edge) and go from there. if you have a bunch of Barron'r cookies then delete them and try again.

    For options traders Barron's ranked Interactive Brokers, ThinkorSwim and OptionHouse each with 4 1/2 stars. TradeStation and eOption ranked 4th and 5th with 4 stars.

    “...beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
    Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. From her book 'Molly Bawn' (1878).


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  2. Mark Lapin

    Mark Lapin

    I wouldn't trust these rankings as brokers who paid for more advertising dollars to Barron's will get higher ratings.
     
    #2     Mar 18, 2017
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  3. Robert Morse

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  4. Steven Leeds

    Steven Leeds

    I've followed Theresa Carey's column for a long time and have always respected her column and found it to be, in general, unbiased and very useful.

    Do you have any empirical evidence to support your claim that the 16 brokers listed in the article paid the Dow Jones & Company some undisclosed sum of money to get "higher ratings" in Barron's annual review?

    For example did Fidelity pay DJ&C more to get a first place ranking than Lightspeed which was ranked 10th. Interactive Brokers (2nd) vice Planner Securities (16th.)

    Just curious how you got to your conclusion.

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  5. Steven Leeds

    Steven Leeds

    Bob,

    Ditto. Also have missed the top 10 2016 wines, vacation spots, restaurants, cigars, pistols, shotguns, tax preparation software, books, movies, billboard singles, archaeological sites and so on.

    Steve
     
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  6. CBC

    CBC

    Thanks for that Steven.

    IB is #1 in general. Suprised that fidelity came first.
     
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    #6     Mar 19, 2017
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  7. Zzzz1

    Zzzz1

    Says who?any evidence for your claim? Barron's is one of the few respected retail investing publications out there...

     
    #7     Mar 19, 2017
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