Reviewed against 15 other online brokers, TD Ameritrade was named #1 Overall Broker in the StockBrokers.com 2019 Online Broker Review. We rated #1 in several categories, including "Customer Service" (3 years in a row), "Platforms & Tools" (8 years in a row), "Education" (7 years in a row), and "Beginners" (7 years in a row). TD Ameritrade, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC, a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation. TD Ameritrade is a trademark jointly owned by TD Ameritrade IP Company, Inc. and The Toronto-Dominion Bank. ©2021 Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. TD Ameritrade is a broker that offers an electronic trading platform for the trade of financial assets including common stocks, preferred stocks, futures contracts, exchange-traded funds, options, cryptocurrency, mutual funds, and fixed income investments. It also provides margin lending, and cash management services. The company was founded as Ameritrade in 1971 before the company acquired competitor TD Waterhouse from Toronto-Dominion Bank in 2006. The newly combined company was then renamed T