OCT 5: Online Stock Trading Sites & Brokers
Whether hiring an online stock trading site or company to manage your portfolio or doing it on your own it really doesn t matter so long as it works for you. But if you need some help with your stocks you should know what a company can do for you.

Unlike a stock, which represents equity in a company and can be held for a long time, if not indefinitely, commodities contracts have finite lives. The word “contract” is used because a commodities contract requires delivery of the commodity in a stated month in the future unless the contract is liquidated before it expires.