Whois & Analysis for tdameritrade.com

Investing online, also known as online trading or trading online, is a process by which individual investors and traders buy and sell securities over an electronic network, typically with a brokerage firm.

This type of trading and investing has become the norm for individual investors and traders since late 1990s with many brokers offering services via a wide variety of online trading platforms.

TD Ameritrade is a brokerage firm based in Omaha, Nebraska.

The letters TD are derived from Toronto-Dominion Bank, the largest shareholder.

The company provides services for individuals and institutions that are investing online.

The company offers an electronic trading platform for the purchase and sale of financial securities including common stocks, preferred stocks, futures contracts, exchange-traded funds, options, mutual funds, and fixed income investments.

It also provides margin lending, and cash management services.

A stock trader or equity trader or share trader is a person or company involved in trading equity securities.

Stock traders may be an agent, hedger, arbitrageur, speculator, stockbroker or investor.

A stock investor is an individual or company who puts money to use by the purchase of equity securities, offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value (capital gains).

This buy-and-hold long term strategy is passive in nature, as opposed to speculation, which is typically active in nature.

Many stock speculators will trade bonds (and possibly other financial assets) as well.

Stock speculation is a risky and complex occupation because the direction of the markets are generally unpredictable and lack transparency, also financial regulators are sometimes unable to adequately detect, prevent and remediate irregularities committed by malicious listed companies or other financial market participants.