Today you are going to see something new and awesome on StockTwits: The little pink “Z” you will now find on the site stands for Zap Trade, and it’s a feature powered by Zecco Trading that is available only on StockTwits.
Zap Trade: Trade instantly without leaving StockTwits
Zap Trade is a small “widget” that appears wherever you see a ticker symbol on StockTwits. Clicking the Z launches a pop-up trade ticket that lets you instantly place a trade with Zecco Trading, all without leaving the StockTwits site. Zap Trade even provides a real-time quote to see what the price is before you place a trade.
It is so simple to use and you can see Zap Trade in action here.
All it takes is a Zecco Trading account
All you need to use Zap Trade is an account with Zecco Trading. It’s easy to sign up for a Zecco Trading account and stock trades are only $4.50 each. If you keep a balance of $25,000 or more, they’ll even give you 10 free stock trades each and every month!
If you already have a brokerage account, Zecco also makes a perfect second account where you can trade very easily with low costs. I have personally set up an account and will be tweeting about trades I make using Zap Trade in real time. This should be a ton of fun and I will keep my performance public and on the stream!
Indeed, we think Zap Trade is a pretty neat feature and we hope you enjoy!
PS – TechCrunch is covering the launch as well .
i like what i see. it seems so obvious and that is how most great ideas happen.
so obvious that etrade has passed on the idea for 2 years with us. genius. :)
unreal! they’d definitely see more trading volume. it seems to be a win-win for not only the user, but the companies as well.
Great idea and execution, Howard, congrats. Does Zecco allow options trading? I had a similar conversation recently with a discount options brokerage about facilitating instant options trades with Portfolio Armor. I.e., a user goes in to Portfolio Armor find out the optimal puts to buy to hedge his position in XYZ against a greater-than-15% loss. He gets presented with the optimal contracts a second later along with a link to the brokerage site to buy them (your ticket widget is a more elegant approach, but I didn’t think of that).
good question and idea. it will come.
i like what i see. it seems so obvious and that is how most great ideas happen.
so obvious that etrade has passed on the idea for 2 years with us. genius. :)
unreal! they'd definitely see more trading volume. it seems to be a win-win for not only the user, but the companies as well.
good question and idea. it will come.
Great idea and execution, Howard, congrats. Does Zecco allow options trading? I had a similar conversation recently with a discount options brokerage about facilitating instant options trades with Portfolio Armor. I.e., a user goes in to Portfolio Armor find out the optimal puts to buy to hedge his position in XYZ against a greater-than-15% loss. He gets presented with the optimal contracts a second later along with a link to the brokerage site to buy them (your ticket widget is a more elegant approach, but I didn't think of that).
Nice job, Howard! Looks like a terrific integration.
jc
thx jon. lots of hard work.
Nice job, Howard! Looks like a terrific integration.
jc
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thx jon. lots of hard work.