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美国史考特证券创立于1980年,目前在美国拥有300家以上的分行。
是美国最大的券商之一，史考特证券是一家私有的证券交易商，公司的历史可以追溯到1980年。目前在全美有441家分支机构，还有专门的华语服务分行。
史考特证券早就认识到中国人对外投资的理财需求，高度重视中国市场开拓，不但建立了中文网站，还提供全天24小时的华语客户
服务。还曾在主流的中国网络媒体投放广告，很多网友就是通过新浪网的广告认识史考特证券的。由于华语服务很完善，很多海外华人也喜欢在史考特开户。
史考特证券的交易费比较低，每笔股票交易收$7，期权交易为$7+$1.25/份合约。开户的最低资金限制只有$500，对闲置账户也不额外收费。
史考特证券对交易品种和交易类型有一些限制，如不能交易美国以外的市场，不能做期货，不能裸卖空等。其融资利率相对于IB等面向专业投资者的交易商也比较高。所以史考特证券更适合投资新手或投资品种比较单一的投资者。
由于史考特证券能提供完善的中文化服务， 交易手续费也比较低，非常适合担心语言问题的华人投资者。
In 1980, Rodger Riney, founder, moved from St. Louis to Scottsdale, Arizona
where he and a partner incorporated Scottsdale Securities.
In 1981, Riney
returned to St. Louis to open a second branch, but ultimately split apart from
his partner in the year 1985 due to conflicting business models. Riney kept the
company name, Scottsdale Securities, and lowered the price of commissions to
attract more clients. Riney's approach was successful and by 1991 Scottsdale
Securities had a total of 15 branches throughout the US.
Scottrade.com was
launched in 1996 (along with Scottrader.com to supply streaming online quotes to
clients). Scottrade.com was successful and grew rapidly amidst the dot-com
bubble of the '90s.
By 1998, Scottrade.com commissions were as low as $7 per
trade (the same price as of November 2011) increasing their customer base.
In
2000, Scottsdale Securities officially renamed to Scottrade due to the success
of their online firm.
In 2003, Scottrade launched their Chinese trading site,
Chinese.scottrade.com.
In 2004, Scottrade's corporate headquarters were
relocated to a new building called Corporate Hill in West St. Louis County.
Scottrade saw substantial growth throughout the 2000s, expanding from 200 branch
offices in 2004 to 500 by 2010.
In 2006, Scottrade formed a partnership with
the St. Louis Blues NHL team, purchasing the naming rights to the 19,150-seat
arena in downtown St. Louis. The arena was renamed the Scottrade Center.
During the late-2000s recession Scottrade did not lay off any of its associates.
In 2008 alone, Scottrade hired 1,000 new associates and opened 75 new branches
despite the economic turmoil.
Scottrade has won numerous awards, most
prominently those of J.D. Power and Associates. See awards section below.
In
December 2010, Scottrade opened its 500th branch office – located in the West
Side of Manhattan.
Scottrade renders both online and branch office services including brokerage
services, banking services, investment education, and it offers award-winning
online trading platforms, including the Scottrade Trading Web Site,
ScottradeELITE Advanced Trading Platform, Scottrader Streaming Quotes, Scottrade
OptionsFirst, Scottrade Mobile Application, and Scottrade Mobile Website.
The
Scottrade Trading Web Site is Scottrade's standard trading platform with stock
screeners; quotes and research; real-time quotes and charting; account
monitoring and a knowledge center.
Scottrader Streaming Quotes provides
real-time market data and news within a trading platform accessible via the
Scottrade Trading Web Site.
ScottradeELITE is an advanced trading platform
including news columns from both Comtex and Dow Jones, advanced charts, level
two and TotalView quotes, and stock screeners.
OptionsFirst, designed by
OptionsHouse in 2008, is a platform allowing complex multi-leg options orders,
margin accounts with low minimum deposits, and multiple accounts to the same
user. All regular common stock and ETF orders are allowed excluding OTCBB and
Pink Sheets.
Scottrade Mobile, launched in 2009, is a trading website
accessible from any internet-enabled mobile device.
A Scottrade Mobile
Application was released for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry devices on
August 2, 2011.