I have a small sum of money that I would like to use as a stock experiment. Which online company would be best as far as returns, customer support/service and allowing me to learn about trading? Thanks!

Scottrade is good and somewhat cheap too at $7 a trade and they have afterhours and premarket trading but….they only give you what, 3 trades to start? By contrast sogo gives you 100 trades to start and after that they charge you only $3 a trade

https://www.sogotrade.com/Setup/Default.aspx?rf=392837

You need only $500 to open an account without margin(extra money loaned to you by your broker to buy even more stocks). if you want an account with margin you need $2000. All of these online brokers allow you to buy and sell stock very fast in realtime for a fee. The fees range from $3 to $12 and more per transaction. I personally use sogo because they only charge $3 per transaction and no broker goes lower than that.

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