I personally haven't had those issues outside of the 10c gap. Today was a read tons of reviews of different brokers day, and those were the common issues I noticed with some of the discount brokers. I was only sharing what I've run across today with most all of the user reviews of discount brokers. People do like to bitch when they have an issue but rarely speak up when they don't so its always hard to get a true idea of how good a company is.
10c break out all depends on the stock, if we're talking about a $5-10 stock it most likely wont have a straight 10c breakout but get up in the $15-20 stocks and it happens pretty often. Main thing for me is that I can't be a full time active trader so when I catch a break out, it sucks if the stock fizzles out a bit side step for awhile because I have to sit and wait. Being able to put in a stop limit is a very useful feature to me. Maybe its the trading platform that fires off the order entry and not a stop limit?
I haven't had any issues with Scottrade outside of the 10c minimum. I use margin but only so I don't have to wait 3 days for funds. I'm not a fan of using someone else's money when it comes to risking money unless of course, I don't have to pay it back =)
10c break out all depends on the stock, if we're talking about a $5-10 stock it most likely wont have a straight 10c breakout but get up in the $15-20 stocks and it happens pretty often. Main thing for me is that I can't be a full time active trader so when I catch a break out, it sucks if the stock fizzles out a bit side step for awhile because I have to sit and wait. Being able to put in a stop limit is a very useful feature to me. Maybe its the trading platform that fires off the order entry and not a stop limit?
I haven't had any issues with Scottrade outside of the 10c minimum. I use margin but only so I don't have to wait 3 days for funds. I'm not a fan of using someone else's money when it comes to risking money unless of course, I don't have to pay it back =)