Ease of Use:  

TradeKing offers virtual tours and video demos that will guide you through their website and teach you to use the basic features and tools. We found the website easy to navigate with well–labeled tabs across the top of the page.

Trading/Investment Tools:  

TradeKing’s trading platform provides many practical tools to help you plan and carry out your investing strategies. Some of these tools include calculators, alerts, charts and graphs. This broker also offers streaming news, so you’ll have access to important information as soon as it hits the wire.

This online service is full of educational materials including mp3s, videos, written articles and more. This is one of the few sites that offers podcasts. You can download an audio seminar and listen to it on your portable player. The learning materials cover everything from basic to advanced aspects of stock trading.

You can make or cancel orders on the web or by phone. Unfortunately, this broker doesn’t offer wireless trading.