Is Scottrade a good choice for starting a Roth IRA & stock trading?

I am considering joining up with Scottrade due to their (apparent) no fee Roth IRA, $7 per online stock trade, and fairly low fee for Vanguard fund purchases ($17 on 5,000 shares) and no maintainence fees.
Anyone with Scottrade? Is this a good choice or is there a better option out there?

I've been with Scottrade for ten years and I've been happy. No problems with their site or with their service. If there was a firm I thought was better, I'd be trading with them.

I have used Ameritrade and Scottrade. Scottrade has hidden fees like Ameritrade, buyt they;re far less. I've been happy with Scottrade and I generally reccomend them

here is a review of some brokerage firms

http://finance-information.blogspot.com/...

Scottrade, Ameritrade and Etrade are all good discount brokers.
I used BrownCo until they sold out to ETrade. Now I use ETrade. They give good service--almost instant execution of trades and answer questions promptly. I goofed once and asked them to transfer part of my rollover IRA into my Roth IRA, then realized that my income exceeded the limit for making that type conversion. I called them and they stopped the transfer which could have caused me to owe a lot of penalty.

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