e-trade.co.uk

Etrade are best avoided. Their admin is appalling and every time they make system changes they either 'lose' your account or all your holdings are wrongly displayed.
It usually takes them a few days to respond to any query and you are unable to trade until it is all put straight.
They refuse to offer financial compensation for their errors and incompetence!

I've had a few problems with e*trade recently - first of all etrade.co.uk does not work under firefox or earlier versions of internet explorer - I'd thought their servers were down. I emailed them about it - no response. I phoned them and they said "oh yeah - we know about that". Thanks! Then getting them to transfer money between accounts and all contact I've had with customer services has been difficult - I asked them to close the account three months ago, and after agreeing they carried on taking money out of my bank account. After a few phone calls they finally revealed I had to fill in a form to close the account - no word about whether ...

Suggest they change their name to F-Trade since it’s the grade they deserve. One day my brokerage account didn’t appear when I logged on. Was told they had to restrict access for 5 days to allow a recent electronic funds transfer to clear. That’s a lot of crap. The reason for electronic transfers is to reduce the clearing process to 24 hours or less. I waited 5 days, and still couldn’t access my account. Sent a blizzard of emails and made several calls. Lots of promises, but was never able to access my account. Finally had to transfer the entire account to a real brokerage firm, which took 6 weeks. Do yourself a favor. Instead of sending your money to Etrade ...