Optionsxpress.com is a website that lets you handle your investments of all kinds (stocks, options, bonds, futures, mutual funds, and ETFs) in a single account so you can simplify your portfolio from multiple accounts on different websites. This account also comes with various investing tools, resources, and features, like portfolio protection, income generation, lower initial investment, and tools for quickly finding stocks, analyzing investment strategies, and monitoring your investments. In addition to all of these investment management tools, the site features free investment education, including the XpressMethod, which breaks down investment into the five key steps of planning, screening, analyzing, executing, and monitoring. The site has multiple kinds of accounts to fit your individual needs. It has basic individual and joint accounts, IRAs (individual retirement accounts), IRAs for children or grandchildren, business accounts, IRAs for minors, and trust accounts. You can either have a cash account, in which you can use all of the cash currently placed in your account, or you can have a cash/margin account, in which you get additional credit from optionsxpress.com and you must maintain a $2,000 minimum in your account at all times. The site is highly critically acclaimed, with four stars from Barron’s for nine years in a row, among other awards.