OT: Who is the best discount broker? E-trade quit providing real time quotes for foreign markets as of today, which is something I absolutely need as someone who trades Canadian stocks through their pinks sheet equivalents (BIOYF, CVALF, PNWRF, etc.), I need to get real time quotes of these stocks on their native markets when placing trades to see the best bid/ask on the native exchange.
I also trade some gray and dark stocks and don't want a broker that's been limiting access to this end of the market, E-Trade would occasionally make me call in an order (most recently to buy NMUS), but would still allow me to buy the stock at the online trade commission rate....they just needed to give me fair warning of the company's filing status or what not.
"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854