Here are the best online brokers for 2021, based on 256 variables.
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[li]TD Ameritrade - Best overall, best for beginners[/li][li]Fidelity - Best for everyday investors[/li][li]Charles Schwab - Best IRA accounts[/li][li]Interactive Brokers - Best for professionals[/li][li]E*TRADE - Best web trading platform[/li][/ul]
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Best overall, best for beginners
TD Ameritrade delivers $0 trades, fantastic trading platforms, excellent market research, industry-leading education for beginners, and reliable customer service. This outstanding all-around experience makes TD Ameritrade our top overall broker in 2021. Read full review
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Best for everyday investors
Fidelity is a value-driven online broker offering $0 trades, industry-leading research, excellent trading tools, an easy-to-use mobile app, and comprehensive retirement services. Serving over 32 million customers, Fidelity is a winner for everyday investors. Read full review
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Best IRA accounts
With more than $6 trillion in client assets, Charles Schwab understands how to consistently deliver value to its customers. Highlights include $0 trades, excellent stock research, a diverse selection of trading tools, and an industry-leading offering of financial planning services. Read full review
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Best for professionals| Open Account
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Once again, in 2021, Interactive Brokers is our top pick for professionals because of its institutional-grade desktop trading platform and rock bottom margin rates. Professionals aside, Interactive Brokers also appeals to casual investors with $0 trades and its user-friendly web platform. Read full review
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Best web trading platform
Founded in 1982 as one of the first online brokerages in the United States, ETRADE highlights include $0 trades, two excellent mobile apps, and the Power ETRADE platform, which is great for beginners, active trading, and options trading. Read full review
[SIZE=6]Other Trading Platforms[/SIZE]
In addition to our top five trading platforms for 2021, we reviewed six others: Merrill Edge, Firstrade, Ally Invest, TradeStation, Webull, and Robinhood. Here’s our high-level takeaways for each. To dive deeper, read our reviews.