Best Online Brokers

Interactive Brokers and Fidelity led this year’s survey of online brokers as they strove to meet the needs of dramatically different user groups.

Led by Interactive Brokers and Fidelity, the 10 online brokers saw added services, more technology, and more educational content. The best of the best provided an array of brokerage services to a wide range of investors.

The pandemic brought millions of new investors, plus supply-chain woes and inflation. All of that’s a challenge for online brokerages. Here’s our annual ranking of the best and the rest, including for the first time, the fintechs.

From research to analytics, from education to usage, here are the strengths—and weaknesses—that determined how the best online brokers stacked up.

Interactive Brokers eked out a narrow win over Fidelity under highly unusual circumstances: a pandemic, a crash and rally, and an explosion of new investors, culminating in the GameStop episode

From research to analytics, from education to usage, here are the strengths—and weaknesses—that determined how the best online brokers stacked up

Interactive Brokers and Fidelity are the kings of a new era in which trading commissions have disappeared, websites keep improving, and industry consolidation is under way.

Our annual look at the top online brokers spotlights websites that beat the pack with cutting-edge technology, ease of use, and abundant functionality. Here’s a look at the brokers, and at their strengths and weaknesses.

The 24th annual study puts Fidelity second, and, in a surprise, E*Trade jumps up to grab third place.

Barron’s published its annual ranking of the top online brokers for 2019. Here’s a look at some of the top performers.

Barron’s released its annual ranking of the best online brokers of 2019. Here’s a look at how the brokers stack up on the categories of mobile, international, retirement, active and occasional.

Barron’s released its 2019 ranking of the 2019 best online brokers. Here’s how the rankings were determined.