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TradeMonster was formed in 2006 by two brothers, Pete and Jon Najarian, who had been trading options for a number of years. Their headquarters are situated in downtown Chicago, right at the very center of the options trading world, allowing them to easily headhunt, recruit and retain employees with vast experience within the industry. While [...]

E-Trade was founded in 1991 in Palo Alto by William Porter, also a founder of TradePlus. Porter took a few hundred thousands dollars of capital investment from TradePlus to develop his product, which was to be on of the first online trading platforms, and within 3 years was generating $11m in revenue. Almost two decades [...]

TD Ameritrade are by no means a new company. The broker opened for business way back in 1971 and quickly began to establish itself as one top brokers in the country. Based in Omaha, Nebraska and employing over 5,000 members of staff, TD Ameritrade are now amongst the 1,000 largest companies within the United States. [...]

OptionsXpress is an online brokerage which was founded in 2000 by Jim Gray, Ned Bennett and David Kelt after they decided the online options trading community deserved a better experience during their trading sessions. Based in Chicago, Illinois, they are at the very center of the options trading world. The company went public in 2005 [...]

TradeKing have been operating as a broker since 2005. From their inception they have shown a desire to be a cutting edge broker, keeping up with trends and often leading the industry into new technology and ways of going about their business. A prime example of this was their blogs and use of social media [...]

OptionsHouse are owned and operated by Peak6 Investment, a company located at the very center of the options trading world. With their headquarters just a few miles from the OCC (Options Clearing Corporations) and on the very same floor that traders of the Chicago Board of Trade have used for over 80 years they have [...]

ShareBuilder was founded in 1996, operating under the name of NetStock Direct. The brokerage soon began to demand attention from pretty much anyone who traded online, making its acquisition by ING Direct in 2007 rather inevitable. The deal, worth a reported $220m, allowed ShareBuilder to tap into the ING Group’s extensive client list, opening up [...]

Scottrade, known as Scottsdale Securities until 2000, is one of those companies that is hard to hate. Founded by Rodger Riney in 1980 in Scottsdale, Arizona, employing over 3,300 personnel, in over 500 offices and having never laid off a single associate, it’s no wonder they have been ranked as one of the top 20 [...]

Founded in 1946, with 38,000 employees and $1.5 trillion in assets under management, Fidelity are without a doubt the oldest and biggest brokerage in the online options trading market. The company’s headquarters, based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, provide a withdrawn yet not isolated location from which to do business. Naturally with the size of Fidelity [...]

Zecco is a subsidiary of Zecco Holdings, inc. Founded in July of 2006 by Jeroen Veth as an online trading community, it quickly grew from a simple forum with less than 10 employee’s to a full fledged online broker within 5 months. With headquarters in San Francisco, California and further offices in Glendale, California and [...]