Online Brokers 2000: How They Stack Up on Confirmation, Portfolio Tracking, Service and Executions

If readers of TheStreet.com ranked online brokers the way baseball scouts ranked prospects, the firms would spend another year in the minors.

It's not that brokers don't understand the game or have some great skills. And it's not that they haven't improved over the past season. It's that they have holes in their games, some bigger than others. One can field, but can't lay down a bunt. Another can hit them out of the park but can't hit the cutoff man.

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