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  1. for me, they have different pros/cons

     

    COL - Pros: 1. Established. 2. Has EIP (for buy and hold strat, averaging entries) 3. Stores broker historical data (eg if you want to see what Deutsche bank purchased and sold for the past 6 months)

    Cons: 1. System has stability issues primarily because of the number of subscribers (especially during the times wherein the market's very active)

     

    BPI Trade - Pro: 1. Convenience of transferring money (transferring from BPI online acct to BPI trade acct)

    Con: 1. System has stability issues although it has improved over the past few months.

     

    Wealthsec - platform is just similar to BPI Trade (minus the money transferring convenience)

     

    Maketrade - Pros: 1. Faster transactions 2. Great charting (ichimoku, intraday charts, etc). 3. Very nice feel of the platform

    Con: 1. Doesn't show the actual running balance as it doesn't include the SCCP fees, commissions in your real time portfolio.

     

    Others that have online platforms that I haven't personally seen yet are: Unicapital, RCBC, First Metro, Timson. Marami pa atang iba.

     

     

    Imho, Maketrade has the best platform if you want to trade. COL has that EIP functionality if you want to buy regularly in chunks.

     

    What do you mean by EIP?

  2. What is true for one type of provider is true for all. Internet speed is all about bandwidth. There is an allocated bandwidth, and that is shared by all subscribers. Hence, more subscribers on line, bandwidth is more divided, slower internet speed. The less subscribers online, more bandwidth is available, the connection speed is faster.When a particular service provider says you have a guaranteed 1Mbps connection, that is only partly true. 1Mbps means that would be the allocation to each subscriber IF total available bandwidth is divided by X number of subscribers. BUT, service providers would easily allow more subscribers over their projected users. Why? Because logically, the expectation is that NOT ALL subscribers log-on at that same time. That is the provider's expectation and projection.It does happen, however, that there are particular times that everyone, and more, go online. That's when you will start to experience a sluggish internet connection.Case in point: all service providers are only good at the start, when there subscribers are just few. But you will notice, in time, your internet speed will also slacken. That means, the number of subscribers have already increased, hence the reason why your internet connection will start to slow down.When that happens, your service provider SHOULD upgrade their bandwidth. If they don't, they're service will start to suck, and they will loose their subscribers as these will transfer to another service provider.The real test of true internet speed is your actual observation when you browse, or when you upload/download files. Not even sites like speedtest.net show the actual and real internet speed.

    I agree!

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