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How to join the Ameritrade Investing app?
If you like the investing and trading features of Ameritrade Investing, check out our post to know more about how to open your account!
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by Victória Lourenço
Opening an account at Ameritrade Investing app
If you want a great platform for beginners in investing and trading, Ameritrade Investing can offer you that. This online broker has a number of platforms for its users to improve their trading and investments. So, if you want to know how to open your Ameritrade account, keep reading our post!
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Open account online
To open your account with this broker in an online process, you can go to Ameritrade’s website and click on open account. After that, you can see which type of account you want to open. In case you are in doubt, the website offers a questionnaire for you to answer and find out which account is best for you.
After deciding the type of your account, you can go back to the application page and offer the personal information they require. You will need to give the online broker this kind of information so that they can check and identify who you are. After that, you can get a response from them and hopefully complete the process of opening your Ameritrade account.
Join using the app
You can manage your Ameritrade account once you have already opened your account. You can get access to your account details and all the great features that this online broker offers to its users. However, you will need to follow the steps to open your account through Ameritrade’s website.
Ameritrade vs. Interactive Brokers
If you still do not know if Ameritrade is the best online broker for you, you can research information about other online brokers. So, to help you with that here is a comparison with another great broker.
| Ameritrade | Interactive Brokers | |
| Trading fees | $0 for stocks, ETFs, options (base fee) $2.25 futures per contract $0.65 options per contract | $0 for IBKR Lite 1% of trade value $0.005 per share (with Pro Platform) |
| Account minimum | No account minimum | $0 |
| Promotion | $0 for commission fees | No promotions are available at this moment |
| Investment choices* | Long and short stocks Mutual funds Bonds OTCBB Futures Forex and more *Terms apply | ETFs, bonds, stocks, mutual funds, fractional shares, options, Forex, Futures, and metals |
How to join Interactive Brokers investing?
Do you fit the trader profile to join Interactive Brokers Investing? If so, keep reading to know how to open your IBKR account!
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