looking for a stock broker

i am looking for a stock broker that has a half decent charting program for technical analysis, something metatrader like?

it is very imperative that there is no monthly payments, i only want to pay commission when i make trades.

it would be nice if i could trade canadian stocks as well, but not nessessary.

and i would like to be able to try a demo first. ?

daytrader friendly also.

can anyone name some stockbrokers that have free demos?

Thinkorswim comes to mind.

Scottrade using their elite platform...... you do need a minimum of 25k for that however.... no fees for the platform.

hey guys thanks for the reply's i am going to check out what you mentioned.

i would alsolike to point out i only have a couple thousand to start.

There's a law in the US that requires you to have $25,000 USD in an account in order to day trade stocks. This applies to any account in the US, whether or not you're living outside of the US while placing trades.

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where is the cutoff to determine if someone is daytrading or not.

mabye i keep on buying stocks intending to hold them for a year then the technicals make me change my mind.

10 trades per month is considered investing, anything over that is considered day trading, am I correct? can't remember where I've heard/read this.

The rules are well-defined. It's called "Pattern Day Trading" and it's if you open and close more than 4 trades in a 5 business day period (per week, basically). However that doesn't count if less than 6% of your trades are day trades, ie: they're a small fraction of your overall trading.

For more info:
http://www.daytradingworld.com/day_trading_rules.html

Basically this means you can swing trade, but w/ less than 25k in your account don't expect to be able to scalp.

www.elitetrader.com