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Saturday, 04 February 2012 13:23 |
GRADE CHANGESThis submission details changes in the grades to firms in this survey. Grades are reviewed at least quarterly. |
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 13:14 |
2011 BROKER BOWLThe discount brokerage landscape has been surveyed for the past four or so years. Each December, on New Year's Eve, a new national champion is crowned. The award is given to the broker that provides the best value for the long-term investor; which means, it's the broker that has the lowest, overall transaction cost. Here's a line-up of the National Champions. 2011 Lightspeed Trading 2010 Lightspeed Trading 2009 Zecco |
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 12:41 |
GRADES FOR BROKERS IN THE SURVEYLet’s look at the overall results: the grades in a tabulated format. I hope you enjoy some of the names of the different firms. These grades were initially assigned as of December 31, 2011. During the course of the year, as things change, the survey will be revisited; if important new information is found about a broker, a grade will be reassigned. In fact, one of the articles below includes a current list of the top ten brokers, from best to worst, using the approach adopted in this survey. As of New Year's Eve, four companies earned an A grade; seven companies are currently graded as a B; a total of 11 companies merited a C, while 26 companies received a D. Finally, 15 companies were awarded a failing grade: an F. Keep in mind: they failed as brokers for long-term investors; the definition of such investors was discussed earlier. A brokerage firm that earns an F for a long-term investor, could well merit an A for a trader. One company, SureTrader, was not graded for reasons disclosed in the discussion section for that company. |
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 10:16 |
BROKERAGE SURVEY FORMATThis post is a deeper dive into the format used to critique each brokerage firm. The post after this one contains a summary of the grades, which is followed by posts that provide some expanded details on each of the brokerage firms reviewed in this survey. The commentary on each broker is divided into two sections: (i) a summary of key fees and related matter and (ii) a discussion on the firm in question, which includes any response from the company. |
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 09:31 |
THE ANNUAL DISCOUNT BROKERAGE SURVEYWelcome to the 2011 survey of discount brokerage firms. Information on self-styled discount brokers has been compiled for almost four years; it’s now time to publish. This introduction contains a description of the methodology used to grade firms. A table in the third post shows the results. Towards the end there are posts where each broker is described in some detail using a standard format. The third article focuses on a breakdown of the format used to describe each individual broker. The approach, in summary, is as follows: brokers were analyzed on commission rates, additional fees and overall service. A total of sixty-four brokerage websites were included in this survey. If there are more out there that were missed, please let me know. Each broker was assigned a letter grade, A through F. |
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:26 |
fEarnings per Share In the next few articles, the term "earnings" and "earnings per share" will be used very frequently. In fact, in the analyses that follow, earnings will be paramount; they'll be used in some shape or form pretty continuously. The main focus will be on earnings per share. We're focused on buying shares of common stock, so normalizing the earnings to the number of shares makes sense. So before discussing Earnings per Share or EPS, the term should be defined. EPS (Earnings per Share) is Net Income (after dividends have been paid on preferred shares) divided by the number of shares outstanding. Since the number of outstanding shares fluctuates a lot, the "profit" is actually dividend by the average number of outstanding shares. Each of those two new terms needs to be discussed. |
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 18:13 |
IntroductionIn the article entitled The Dividend Discount Model interest rates were examined together with a short introduction to discounting a stream of cash flows and determining a value for an investment opportunity. This value depended on the rate of return required by a willing buyer. In this blog, the goal is to turn this effort on its head and learn how to figure out an interest rate if we only know the stream of cash flows and the future value. The effort borrows from areas with which most people are already familiar: a savings account. It shows how the mechancis of calculating interest payments in such an account can be adapted to figuring out how well a portfolio is performing. The method that Quicken and other similar packages and sites uses will be demonstrated and shown to be equivalent to an Excel function called XIRR. The limitations of this approach will be touched on. Be forewarned: this article is long! |
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