TraderPlanet Broker Battle

Equity markets worldwide present an array of opportunities for institutions, corporations and hedge funds. Banc of America Securities delivers innovative solutions and world–class execution to help clients invest funds, raise capital, grow portfolios and manage exposure. All through our powerful, integrated global equities platform.

optionsXpress Holdings, Inc., a pioneer in equity options trading for the retail investor, provides innovative online brokerage services for investor education, strategy evaluation and trade execution. Through subsidiaries optionsXpress, the top-ranked online brokerage, and brokersXpress, an online trading and reporting platform for independent investment professionals, we offer a wide range of innovative and proprietary investor tools, outstanding customer service and competitive commissions.

Many Americans believe that investing is an activity that's out of their reach. At ShareBuilder we are changing that perception. We believe everyone should be able to invest and that's why we've created an investment service that has eliminated account minimums, reduced commissions and doesn't have maintenance fees. We're dedicated to making investing easy and affordable for everyone.

At TradeKing, the story about us is really about you. Since 2005, we've pioneered a new breed of online brokerage firm dedicated to empowering you, the independent, self-directed investor.

It all starts with our groundbreaking flat-fee structure that doesn't require you to pore through the fine print to understand the deal. Then we add our friendly (that's right, friendly), knowledgeable client service people who won't rest until they've answered all your questions and listened to all your feedback. Our innovative social network of individual traders and investors help you hone your skills, find fresh trading ideas, and get your questions answered. Lastly, we work around-the-clock investigating, developing, and employing the very latest tools and technologies to help make you an increasingly better, faster, smarter trader — in short, to help make you a Trade King.

We know what active traders need. Advanced Futures, NFA member and CFTC registered, provides traders with solutions to trading the market. With a choice of many trading platforms, and a dedicated customer service team focused on providing some of the most comprehensive personal care in the industry.  Trading and obtaining results is hard enough to do. Worrying about reliability, slow fills, commissions and hard to reach customer service representatives shouldn't be another list of issues for a trader to deal with. Advanced Futures realizes this and has provided solutions where other firms may not. This allows the trader to focus all their attention on trading, which in return helps them to achieve their top potential in the market.

Established and registered with the NFA and CFTC in 1998, Global Futures Exchange and Trading Company, Inc. is located in Encino, California with two branch offices. We offer deep-discounted commission rates, liberal day-trading margins ($500 day-trading margins* for e-mini S&P, e-mini Russell, e-mini NASDAQ, mini ($5) Dow Jones), system trading, broker-assisted accounts, automated block trading, & 3rd-party managed accounts. We service all types of accounts including retail accounts, IBs, CTAs, CPOs, Broker-Dealers and Foreign Brokers in more than 20 languages.

Whitehall Investment Management Las Vegas ("Whitehall Las Vegas") specializes in futures and options trading, with 25+ years of combined experience in trading the markets. We diligently provide our clients with whatever form of service they require, ranging from full service to deep discount, including online trading. Whitehall Las Vegas is managed by Paul Brittain, who entered the futures industry in 1983, and has gained experience in many aspects of the business since then. Based on his belief that a knowledgeable trader is better able to make informed decisions, Paul focuses on customer education.

As a leading online brokerage firm, Scottrade offers a full line of investment products, online trading platforms and market research tools to help investors take control of their financial future. Scottrade's dedication to excellence is what truly makes us stand apart from other brokerage firms and better serve our customers, employees and communities.

The value behind E*TRADE FINANCIAL's name lies in its tireless effort to challenge the old ways of doing business. We succeed in delivering a diversified and integrated portfolio of innovative, customer-focused brokerage and banking products and services by remaining true to our operating ideals and well-proven formula-regularly asking, can this be done better? By applying this level of discipline to our Retail, Corporate and Institutional businesses, we are able to deliver long-term value to our customers and to our shareholders.

The Charles Schwab Corporation (Nasdaq: SCHW) has been a leader in financial services for more than three decades. Through advocacy and innovation, the company has worked to make investing more affordable, more accessible and more understandable to all.

Today, Schwab meets the needs of individual and institutional clients through three primary business segments:

• Investor Services provides retail brokerage and banking operations to millions of individuals.
• Advisor Services is the industry leader in providing custodial, trading and support services to independent investment advisors.
• Corporate and Retirement Services provides retirement plan services to employers and employees, as well as support services for plan administrators.

Wells Fargo Advisors is one of the nation's premier financial services firms. Its brokerage business is represented by nearly 16,000 financial advisors nationwide and was born out of the Wells Fargo & Company's 2009 acquisition of Wachovia Corporation.

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation, through its brokerage subsidiaries,combines innovativetrading technology, easy-to-use andunderstand investment tools and services, investor education and superior client service to create a market-leading financial services experience. Now home to the awardwinning thinkorswim trading platform) and the Investools investor education program, TD AMERITRADE provides millions of retail investors, traders and independent registered investment advisors (RIAs) with the tools, service and support they need to help build confidence in today’s rapidly-changing market environment.

Headquartered in Burlingame, Calif., Zecco Holdings, Inc. (www.zecco.com) offers users a financial social networking community, and access to free stock trading through its wholly owned subsidiary, Zecco Trading, Inc. This revolutionary pricing and innovative financial community where great investing ideas can be freely shared, debated and tested, provides a refreshing alternative to traditional brokers like E*TRADE, Charles Schwab, and TDAmeritrade. Notable backers of Zecco Holdings include Velocity Capital and Boekhoorn M&A.

Fidelity Investments is an international provider of financial services and investment resources that help individuals and institutions meet their financial objectives.

Once known primarily as a mutual fund company, Fidelity has adapted and evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of its customers. Today, that evolution is reflected in our menu of products and services. In addition to more than 300 Fidelity mutual funds, we also offer discount brokerage services, retirement services, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, life insurance and much, much more.

Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price is a global investment management organization with $315.6 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2009. The organization provides a broad array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. The organization also offers a variety of sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools. T. Rowe Price's disciplined, risk-aware investment approach focuses on diversification, style consistency, and fundamental research.

ApexFutures.com is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) and registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an independent introducing broker and has been a leader in providing online futures brokerage services to clients worldwide for over 14 years.

ApexFutures.com offers the latest in technology based futures and options trading at one of the deepest discounted commission rates in the industry.

Lind-Waldock has been providing comprehensive, quality futures brokerage service to individual and institutional traders worldwide for more than four decades. We specialize in futures trading—and we know what futures traders need.

At Lind-Waldock, we strive to not only meet your changing demands, but exceed your expectations. Explore all the resources we have to offer, and see for yourself why tens of thousands of investors have made Lind-Waldock their futures broker of choice.

MF Global is a world leader in execution and clearing services for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivative products as well as for non-derivative foreign exchange, equities, and fixed-income products in the cash market. We offer customized solutions in the global cash and derivatives markets to a wide range of clients that includes financial institutions, corporations, hedge funds and other asset managers as well as professional traders and private/retail clients. MF Global operates in 14 countries on more than 70 exchanges, providing access to some of the largest financial markets in the world; we are the leader by volume on many of these markets. Through delivering access across multiple markets and geographic regions, along with a breadth of product offerings and extensive product knowledge, MF Global’s focus is on helping clients define and execute their trading and hedging strategies and capitalize on market opportunities.

TradeStation Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: TRAD), through its principal operating subsidiary, TradeStation Securities, Inc., offers the TradeStation platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. TradeStation is an electronic trading platform that offers state-of-the-art electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom Equities, Options, Futures and Forex trading strategies.

TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & NFA) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant, and also a member of the Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange and NASDAQ OMX. The company’s technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services.  Its London-based subsidiary, TradeStation Europe Limited, an FSA-authorized brokerage firm, introduces UK and other European accounts to TradeStation Securities.

Since its founding in 1935, Morgan Stanley and its people have helped redefine the meaning of financial services. The firm has continually broken new ground in advising our clients on strategic transactions, in pioneering the global expansion of finance and capital markets, and in providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.