TD Ameritrade is an premium full-service online brokerage firm where you can trade many different things, including common stock, preferred stock, options, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed income products, and more. Margin lending available, as well as a few other financial services.

Ameritrade is a well-established broker that went public in 1997 and then acquired TD Waterhouse from TD Bank.

TD Ameritrade is known for providing high quality across the board. The trading platform is excellent, the research tools highly useful, the customer service is appreciated by the clients, and so on.

Here are a few examples of what TD Ameritrade is offering:

Advanced Analyzer	Fundamentals	Pattern Matcher	Trade Triggers
Alerts	Market Edge	QuoteScope	Trailing Stops
Analytical Options Chains	Market Huddle	S&P Reports	Two-Legged Option Chains
Charts	Options 360	Screeners	Watch Lists
Command Center 2.0	Options Exposure	SnapTicket
Conditional Orders	Options Huddle	StrategyDesk

Costs

Compared to low-cost online brokers, TD Ameritrade is quite expensive, but you do get a lot of additional services here that you don’t get with the basic brokers.

There is no minimum balance requirement.

Customer service

TD Ameritrade offers excellent customer service.