After the Dow was down over 300 points last Friday, the market still doesn’t look so optimistic now.

April news showed rebound of the economy. We should all start being more optimistic.

This week we sent out an email to our customers, informing that the preview of our brand new website and trading platform FirstradeNEXT will be released in mid April.

Remember all the controversy about Google, Chinese hackers, and uncensored search results in China back in January? The announcement on the Google blog that sent shockwaves through not just the tech industry, but international politics.

Firstrade encounters the same issues as Google when we are design webpages, so we’re definitely hoping Google’s actions will lead IE6 users to upgrade to newer browsers. In the meantime, rest assured that our site will continue to support IE6 and all the other popular browsers out there.

Built on the back-end of FirstradeNEXT, we are happy to introduce Firstrade Mobile, a mobile optimized platform for those who trade on-the-go!

In fact this is going to change how investors deal with options trading on a daily basis. Currently, options symbols are somewhat cryptic, one cannot know the strike price and expiration date just by looking at symbols. With the new setup, all the options will be descriptive, VERY descriptive. Option symbols are going from the current 3-5 character setup to 21 charaters!

Guy tries to sell LCD TV for $100 (It’s actually an oven door)

CARS (Car Allowance Rebate System) or Cash for Clunkers is so popular that it has already ran out of funds to support it.

High-frequency trading has been a hot topic in the markets.