[MysticLlama]

Sharebuilder rocks as far as I'm concerned. I've been using them for several months now for a couple of accounts and have had 0 problems.

It does help that my friend is the Marketing Manager there and I can send any bugs I find through him and they get fixed right up. (It's only been a couple of small things like confusing links though, nothing functionally wrong.)

One of the things that I like is that you can do a purchase on Tuesdays (as long as you do the setup on Monday) for $4. Sells are about $15 I think. The thing is, it makes it not so painful to put money in, but discourages trading in and out with small dollar amounts.

I'd suggest doing the $12/mo. plan. It allows you 6 free buy transactions, $2 buys after that, but more importantly adds the gain/loss tracker tool, which is really handy at pointing out how even small fees can kill your return when you're not trading large sums in and out.

I might eventually want to switch to something that has $7-8 trades to be more active, but right now I'm mostly just adding, and this is the most inexpensive way to do that.