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ShareBuilder BrokerageReviews.org rating: 3-star brokerage firm rating

ShareBuilder Review: Stocks, ETFs & Options Trading Commissions

Automatic Investments: Basic plan - $4 per investment
Standard plan - $12/month, you get 6 automatic investments and each additional is $2
Advantage plan - $20/month, you get 20 automatic investments and each additional is $1
Real-time stock and ETF trades: $9.99
Options: Early Exercise - $30 per early exercise, no trade commission; Automatic Exercise - $20 per automatic exercise, no trade commission
Mutual funds: $19.95 for no-load funds; 70 free funds

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ShareBuilder Reviews


by guest, 11/22/2011 Pros: Cons: If you are a "trader", you can find better brokers. If you are a "buy and hold" and want to dollar cost average into several dividend paying stocks every week and reinvest the dividends when they pay out, this is your best choice. The cost to buy with $1 trades with their Automatic Investment Plans allows the idea of individual purchases even as low as in the $100 to $200 range for long term investors to make sense. If you think like Warren Buffet, and believe that the best time to sell a stock is never, this is probably your least expensive option for those of us with the desire to build a portfolio over time.
by Dave, 4/29/2011 Pros: cheap trades. solid company. Will be here in 10 years. Cons: Cheap trades only on the Automatic plan, Tuesdays are their automatic day. I haven't had any troubles with Sharebuilder company. They do what they say they will do. They aren't the best but they sure aren't bad enough that I want to move my money from them. I have Scottrade and Sharebuilder. I like both brokerages for different reasons. I use Sharebuilder to buy dividend stocks on their automatic plan which is on Tuesday.($12.00 give your 12 buys) I then buy all non dividend paying stocks and ETF's with my Scottrade account. I like doing business this way. I then have my money at two different brokerages.Always have your money at two different brokers. Happy investing. Dave
by mike o'sheah, 1/13/2011 Pros: Cons: I don't wish and Advise anyone to open An Account At Sharebuilder,this brokerage is pure Scam,chared me scandelous Fee for no what so ever trade,went to my bank account and rip off my money,trading tool are Very inclear,bad Bad Bad costumer service. to ANYONE Stay Stay Stay away off Sharebuilder Ing.. IT'S NIGHTMARRE Thanks. I hope you'll understand
by Elwin, 11/11/2010 Pros: Simple Site Design, User-Friendly, Good Company Brand Name Cons: Unreliable Web Servers, Outages, Not Real-Time, Defective Products I've been an investor with ShareBuilder since 2006, operating my online trades at sea while I was aboard a US Naval vessel during off-duty times and while we were in-port at internet cafes at the Yokosuka Naval base. The older management back then was more responsible and seemed to look after the well-being of investors. When the new management from ING took over, all of that changed. Customer service began to deteriorate, network reliability began to give way to unacceptable outages even during peak trading hours, and investors like me began to lose money in the thousands within days and tens of thousands within weeks. Securities products sold to investors like me under the ShareBuilder brand were not screened properly and were falsely represented as good investments in their online advertising. Serious violations like these need to be dealt with legal action or they will never take responsibility for the financial damages they caused investors.
by atReanuKeeves, 9/14/2010 Pros: Site set up well, Helpful information Cons: Some securities are not available., inadequate IT, No real time quotes available., cannot handle high trading volumes, poor customer service, does not fix IT problems in time, many outages, outages mean lost money, Server always down At first glance Sharebuilder was great. The prices were fairly low and the format was user-friendly. HOWEVER, the only times you can reliably log on is when the markets are CLOSED--which obviously defeats the entire purpose of "real time" stock trading. I am not exaggerrating when I tell you 9/10 times the server is too busy to allow a logon during market hours. This is absolutely inexcusable and has made me tear my hair out when I've put in the work and was poised to make a profitable trade, only to find the server too busy. Few things are more frustrating than watching a stock price fall before your very eyes after you tried to sell but were unable to do so because Sharebuilder has such a weak server. After losing out on over $100 on three separate occasions (and no customer service available, I might add), I took my business elsewhere. If you don't care about making money on a real-time trade, then go for it. If you do care, then Sharebuilder is not the site for you.
by capri138, 7/22/2010 Pros: Easy to use, Site set up well, Great place to invest for the future Cons: Some securities are not available. Sharebuilders best asset is their convienence and is easy to use. I do feel that more variety is needed to better able investors to choose stocks and securities that they want, rather than just being able to choose what is available.
by Merilin, 4/30/2010 Pros: Cons: I began using Sharebuilder in January 2009. I have a 401K account through work that has been doing terrible over the last year like everyone else's is doing. My husband talked me into getting into the market with Sharebuilder on a small sacle now that the market is as close to zero as you can get. We started small with $100 a month and are now at $200 per month. I received a bonus at work and put it into the account and we decided to not try and guess individual stocks that would go up...
by ET, 3/2/2010 Pros: Cons: I signed up for a Sharebuilder account several weeks ago. My initial impressions were good: stocks were easy to buy and view. And then, at a critical point in a rally, I tried to sell...and could not get the site to load at all. For more than an hour. And then it happened again the next morning. In the last two days the site has been virtually unusable for up to an hour at a time. And in this period, I watched my stocks fall and fall, while I desperately tried to get the site to load.
by Will, 1/30/2010 Pros: Cons: This site is excellent for the new or timid investor, or for someone who wants to invest only a small amount per month. There are no account minimums and moderate fees for your investments, they are tied in with ING and so you can transfer funds immediately. Customer service is great and will help you out with any problems or questions
by Krash, 12/27/2009 Pros: Cons: have used ShareBuilder off and on for the past few years. I like the dollar cost averaging you can achieve with buying at monthly intervals. I started with them for my long-term investing before being turned on to daytrading. I still have some money in my account. But the extra couple of hundred of dollars have come in handy when needed, when selling after couple of months investing.

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