Watch out for excessive fees at Etrade. Once you find out about the excessive trading fees and want to transfer your account to another, more customer oriented company, they charge $60.00 for the privilege of releasing your account! Their quotes are delayed and the online account balances are ...
My father opened an Etrade account in early 2007 with $1000. He made a bad trade, but he did not spend all his money on that trade. Shortly thereafter, he was hospitalized with various diseases including Lyme and Emphysema. Obviously, he was not able to monitor his account. I called customer ...
My problem is a very simple one: Etrade is de facto refusing to close my account. I have been trying to close my Etrade account since end of November. After having sold all my stock asset I ended up with a cash balance and two worthless stocks. After a couple of calls to Etrade, they decided to ...