Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "...fir the cash purchase of stocks"?

Option Express rates says.. 8.95/trade flatrate for stocks, 1.25/per contract for options.
Sounds reasonable to me..

But, it can get expensive if you're day trader.

Prices are moving up but volume is declining since earnings.

Perhaps so... but AAPL at $600 is no longer attractive to me. So, I'll just pass for now.
There are others that I like to play.. just waiting for more puke fest.

I like Solar stocks... esp. FSLR.. and also SUNE.

I'm looking at FSLR and SUNE.
50ma nice support here. Earnings coming up..this week.

Let see how they go.. if they pull back a bit more.. I think it's buy-able.

I also like YUM... (yum yum kfc chicken). Nice support at 75.
This is more like long term play rather than swing trade.

Well, I refering to this fees and commissions on their web site:
http://www.optionsxpress.com/about_us/pric...ommissions.aspx

The 'per-contract' is only apply to Options. Not Stocks.
Stocks are still the same 8.95/per trade. That's slightly cheaper than TD Ameritrade, but more expensive than ScottTrade/MBTrading/TradeKing.

Options is like 1.25 per contract (only if you buy 10 or more). Otherwise, it still 12.95 per contract.
Yes, it seems pricey here.

Do you trade stocks or options or both?

Money is hiding there... that's why. I got some now..with a stop just below 75.45 for YUM.
Watching for SUNE opportunity.. maybe after this Friday and see how it goes.
If sudden tanks after earnings, I'll buy it.

TWTR is short candidate.. just like LNKD.

FB although it's the same sector but its' the strongest of them all. So, may not want to short this one.

Well, for NFLX 344 is at bears territory here. Between 370/380 got more bears waiting to pounce on it.
Above 380, bulls are back.

$300 is cover spot for bears, $346 is stop or $385 is stop.

IMO, kinda hard to play NFLX for both bears and bulls.

But, for bears, TWTR and LNKD are easier.

Alibaba IPO coming.... it should be interesting.
1 bln IPO to be come 190 bln once it gets to the market.

I think Ukranian issues will give market to buy the dips.

Sp500 and Dow going different directions than Nasdaq.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: May 8 2014, 12:33 AM

Waahh.. all nasdaq stocks taken to the slaughtered house tonight. Even my solar stocks.

Take a look at TSLA... so glad I dodged this bullet.

The bears aren't visible in the general indexes but they're attacking the momo internet, solar, small caps and homebuilders.
Chewing away their prices and bulls are hiding in the general indexes.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: May 9 2014, 09:10 AM

Yup, almost forgot about gaming: lvs, mpel, wynn, mgm...

china stocks also looks like it wanted to puke up.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: May 9 2014, 11:06 AM

Solar stocks finally rally.... same goes for FXI/XPP/Xinhua25 and small caps (IWM). taking opportunity to grab the profits here.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: May 12 2014, 11:02 PM

Have you check out FirstTrade?
https://www.firstrade.com/content/en-us/cus...vice/formcenter
(Click on the links section that says International accounts)

Pop out the champagne...

My solar stocks powering higher.... .. I'm happy here. This weekend will be good. Locked and load..

No..we must follow the rules. So, it's time to SELL when it is all time high again!!!!