Anyone have experience with the free stock trading site zecco.com?

Anyone ever used this? I am moving some of my portfolio there, but am a little suspicious how they can offer free trades. Just waiting for some catch like confirmations or some weirdness.

Thanks!

suppose the market portfolio has an expected return of 10% and a volatility of 20%, while Microsoft's stock?

has a volatility of 30%. Given the higher volatility, should we expect Microsoft to have equity cost of capital that is higher than 10%?

best stock trading site???

I’m looking to just trade stocks and am looking for the site with the lowest fees with a decent interface. I do my own research already and don’t really need any extras just small fees and ability to make trades fairly easily.

Basic Accounting Concepts pls help!?

Beacon Inc. has decided to expand its operations to owning and operating long term health care facilities. The following is an excerpt from a conversation between the chief executive officer, Frank Forrest, and the vice president of finance, Rachel Tucker.

Frank: Rachel, have you given any thought to how we’re going to finance the acquisition of St. Seniors Health Care?

Rachel: Well, the two basic options, as I see it, are to issue either preferred stock or bonds. The equity market is a little depressed right now. The rumor is that the Federal Reserve Bank’s going to increase the interest rate either this month or next.

Frank: Yes, I’ve heard the rumor. The problem is that we can’t wait around to see what’s going to happen. We’ll have to move on this next week if we want any chance to complete the acquisition of St. Seniors.

Rachel: Well, the bond market is strong right now. Maybe we should issue debt this time around.

Frank: That’s what I would have guessed as well. St. Senior’s financial statements look pretty good, except for the volatility of its income and cash flows. But that’s characteristic of the industry.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of issuing preferred stock versus bonds.

Please Help! With the volatility in the market, what do you think about investing in financial preferred stock?

I have been looking at the financial preferred stock of the large banks and seems like one is able to get a 7-8 percent yield. I realize that the financials are always the first to take a hit and have been beaten up this past year. but also believe that they are well caplitalized and able to withstand a bull cycle…even the large banks in Europe (barclays, deutsche, ING, etc). I already own some and have taken a pretty big hit over the past week…but then again, who hasn’t. Just seems that the only way to lose is for these institutions to fail…which governments will not let happen…again! I am willing to hang on through the fluctuations, yet was wondering your thoughts?

Stay at home mum wants to begin trading stocks, need help. Anyone?

What are the best online stock trading sites for beginners? Any tips or helpful sites to start with?

stock trading site questions?

Does it matter if i use American trading site and live in Canada?
Would it better if i just use Canadian trading company or site instead?

How does my portfolio look?

fnaax (formula funds international select) 22116.52 12.5%
fnsax (formula funds us select) 36606.03 20.7%
xlg (rydex 50) 39826.60 22.5%
sfenx (fundamental emerging markets) 28356.65 16.1%
sfnnx (fundamental int. developed) 20225.76 11.5%
sflnx (fundamental us large) 29510.18 16.7%

Here are the reasons behind my choices. First, although the fees on the formula funds seem to be high, I like Greenblatt’s concentrated strategy on investing in companies with high earnings yields and high returns on capital. Over time, I think these funds will outperform their relevant indexes. Second, larger capitalization stocks appear to be a lot cheaper on a valuation basis than smaller capitalization stocks. XLG has a lot of big names that are trading at very reasonable prices. Third, fundamental indexing has its advantages over traditional market weighted indexing due to market behavior, so I feel these will slightly outperform in the long run. Fourth, I have over 40 years until retirement, so I feel being 100% in stocks makes a lot of sense, especially considering how low bond yields are. I do not equate beta (volatility) with risk, so even though the market will be volatile, I can stomach it quite easily. Fifth, in the aggregate, my portfolio breaks down to US 60%/ Foreign 40%, with 60% of the foreign allocation Developed and 40% Emerging. I think that valuations look good in emerging markets, and going forward economics are going to be better than for the developed economies. Hence, the slight over-weighting.

How do you verify that your actually buying real stock from some one when you buy it on-line?

From online stock trading sites.

What are some good sites to invest in stocks?

A friend of mine started with Etrade. I signed up but they somehow mixed my information with my fathers and wanted me to fax them all of this information that I don’t have the time to do at the moment.
He also stated that etrade has a fee per trade which I don’t like..

but what are a list of stock trading sites? Good ones..

Else, how else do people invest in stocks other than the internet? Would it just be through the actual stock market?