Best online financial firm for individual stock purchase?

Thanks. The trade fees with those two are a little higher than I'd like but may be the best option.

You're welcome. Their fees are pretty standard for the industry, I think, but you might be able to negotiate the fees down a little if you give them a call. I know TD is willing to negotiate if you have high trade volume and/or a large account. Opening a new account might put you at a similar advantage, or they might offer up some free trades on said new account instead.

Interactive Brokers and I think Tradestation offer much lower trade fees, but they require a certain amount of trades each month or a minimum account size ($100k, I think). Your situation will determine if either of those two are worthwhile.

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Silly question, but if robinhood ever tanked...you'd still own your stocks purchased through them, but how would you get to them to cash out or manage them?

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yes. LINK

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But if he already has a vanguard account he could do all of his research through their platform and just execute through robinhood. Best of both worlds.

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That's a good idea. I didn't think of that.

OP, here is the Chrome extension someone made for Robinhood. It's called Little John.

I think you can open a brokerage account on Vanguard that will be linked to your retirement accounts. Trades are about $7 I think, but I haven’t actually used it for that.

Vanguards commissions are pretty competitive now. For occasional trades I'd just use them and I do. IB is the least expensive broker I've ever used but I was trading fulltime then. At the time 2011 I had to generate at least $30 commissions a month. I love IB's algos especially Booktrader.