Here are the five top-scoring brokerage firms and the accolades won in the StockBrokers.com Annual Awards for 2024: Fidelity – 5 stars – Our pick for Best Overall Stock Broker, including Best for Customer Service, Best for Education, Best for Beginners, Best for Penny Stock Trading, and Best for IRA Accounts.

The best online brokers have $0 stock and ETF trading, thousands of no-transaction-fee (NTF) mutual funds, and low-cost futures and options trades.

The best online stock trading websites offer investor-friendly features and fees traders can easily justify. To come up with the list of firms consumers should consider this year, we considered...

Editors Pick for Best Stock Market Sites. Our testing reveals that TrendSpider, TradingView, Trade Ideas, and Benzinga are the best stock market websites for traders. For Investors, the best sites are Stock Rover, Motley Fool, and M1 Finance.

Best for active trading: TD Ameritrade. Best for beginners: SoFi Invest®. Best for low fees: Vanguard. Best for long-term investing: Fidelity Investments. Best for expert traders: Interactive...

Here are the best investment firms and trading websites where you can open brokerage accounts to buy and sell stocks online. Our picks include Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers and more.

CNBC Select reviewed investing apps that cover a range of users' investment styles, from micro-investing to active stock trading.

Many offer free stock trading platforms with no account minimums, making investing even more affordable. (Though you may still be charged expense ratios or management fees.) CNBC Select has...

Free stock trading apps make it easy to trade. But the best of them let you do all your trading on your phone, including advanced trades. You can sign up in minutes, buy on the go, and check how...

Investment apps typically offer a range of features, including real-time stock quotes, news and analysis, investment research tools, customizable portfolios and trading capabilities.

The best investing platforms for beginners offer low-cost exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and no-fee mutual funds to help you invest wisely without a ton of stock market knowledge.