US online trading consolidation continues with TD close to $4 billion Scottrade deal LeapRate

October 24, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

US online trading consolidation continues with TD close to $4 billion Scottrade deal

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and its largest stakeholder, Toronto-Dominion Bank, are close to a deal to buy online brokerage Scottrade Financial Services Inc. for $4 billion. TD Ameritrade would acquire Scottrade’s brokerage operations for about $2.7 billion in cash and stock, while Toronto-Dominion would purchase Scottrade’s banking operations for $1.3 billion in cash, according to…

May 05, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Investors see Donald Trump as most favorable for stock market - TradeKing survey

Majority of respondents in a recent survey conducted by TradeKing Group, Inc. picked Donald Trump as the US presidential candidate with the most potential to favorably impact key industry stock sectors. The survey covered 550 independent investors and was conducted from April 26, 2016 to May 2, 2016. Mr Trump got 39% of responses while…

April 19, 2016 BY Mike Fox

NYSE Amex Options launches Binary Return Derivatives (ByRDs) “binary” options product

NYSE Amex Options will initially list ByRDs on 15 highly-liquid equity and ETP securities, including AAPL, BABA, IBM, and SPY, with more names to be added in the future as the program expands (possibly ICE U.S. Dollar Index?). The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), part of the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), today announced the NYSE Amex Options…

March 07, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

MB Trading redesigns website following acquisition by TradeKing

US futures, options and stock broker MB Trading has presented the visitors of its website with a redesigned look, to reflect the fact that the company was acquired by TradeKing. In addition to the logo, which now clearly states that MB Trading is offered by TradeKing, the website is less crowded in terms of text and…

February 06, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TradeKing elaborates on tech issues that caused order execution problems

As per LeapRate's earlier report, a number of clients of US online stockbroker TradeKing had trouble executing buy and sell orders via the company’s website for some time on Monday and Tuesday this week. The company, which appears to be up for sale, has been informing its clients of developments regarding the tech issues and…

February 02, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

TradeKing web order system goes down briefly (again!) – LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that clients of discount US online stockbroker TradeKing were unable to execute buy and sell orders via the company’s website for a while both yesterday (Monday) and this morning. A company representative confirmed to LeapRate that TradeKing was experiencing some server issues, and that the company’s website was not communicating properly…

January 15, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Is TradeKing for sale?

TradeKing has apparently hired BofA as its investment banker in seeking a buyer for the company.

January 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

TradeKing online share order system goes down briefly on Thursday - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that clients of discount US online stockbroker TradeKing were unable to execute buy and sell orders via the company's website for a while on Thursday morning. A company representative confirmed to LeapRate that TradeKing's website was not communicating properly with the company's order routing system for a few minutes after…

November 18, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

TradeKing officially closes MB Trading acquisition

Online brokerage TradeKing Group, Inc. today announced that its acquisition of MB Trading has officially closed. This acquisition further expands the scope of TradeKing’s services as the company continues to build a diversified financial services firm to respond to the needs of various types of traders and investors. For the time being, both TradeKing Securities and…

October 26, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

MB Trading says FX accounts migrated to TradeKing

A follow-up on the topic of MB Trading's acquisition by TradeKing... MB Trading has announced that it stopped directly supporting Forex trading on Friday, October 23, 2015. As a result, MB Trading Desktop Pro forex accounts were migrated to the TradeKing ForexTrader platform. MB Trading MetaTrader 4 Forex account balances were moved to a new TradeKing…

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