Firstrade’s clearing firm changed from Ridge to Penson

We’re currently in the transitional phase of OSI, which kicked in late last month. When entering an options order, it’s prefix is the root symbol, followed by a descriptive tail (called a series key) of the expiration date, strike price, and whether it is a call or a put. This transition is designed for people [...]

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.

As I was introducing the mobile platform to some of our coworkers last week, I really was blown away by the iPhone. Not the technology, but how Apple has managed to make people adopt a data plan. First I asked for a show of hands to see who has a data plan, a few hands [...]

By making data-driven services easy and accessible to the everyday folks, cellular phones have moved beyond calls and texting. Cell phones today are expected to check email, get maps, find reviews, etc.

What more can we achieve during the morning drive outside of email, twitter and facebook? As Firstrade continues to improve its personalized site and services, how we position future mobile applications so that it improves the user’s productivity will be very important.

To all of my loyal newsletter readers, I just noticed yesterday that because of the intense development of FirstradeNEXT (which is a codename, btw), I completely forgot to send out the September issue of the newsletter. To make it up to you guys, the October newsletter will be packed with more exciting tidbits about the [...]

We want to know what features you guys would like in the new Firstrade site.

Here at the blog we like to mix it up, a little funny, a little news, a bit of commentary and information on about our site. But you see the brand new FirstradeNEXT button right below subscribe to us? If you’re looking for nothing but firstrade updates and want a chance to try out the [...]

Just when it seemed CIT was hopeless falling into the same bankruptcy pit as other companies, they are saved… for now. CIT, a financial business offering loans to small businesses are saved by  bondholders who agreed to a three billion dollar deal. This allows CIT to buy sometime to stablize. This in return has bumped [...]