Why not have both? I have a fidelity account, and now i am opening up an IB account as well. I still plan to keep the fidelity account open for their market research and mutual funds, whereas my day trading will be through IB. Who knows, maybe when I reach gold level, I will once again be exclusive to Fidelity. However, now I need the best of both worlds and there is nothing stopping me from having my cake and eating it too.
Yes - good points. I would really love to have the full option charting and analytics that some of the other brokerages offer. Oh, another nice thing about Fidelity - you can buy bonds and CD's from most any offering bank in the country in an instant by searching on yield, maturity, quality/grade etc. TS