Best Trading Platforms for Beginners 2023

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The best trading platforms for beginners all offer three essential benefits. First, the platform itself should be easy to use and beginner-friendly. Second is the provision of a variety of educational materials to get new investors off to a strong start. And third, the best platforms deliver access to quality stock market research.

For our 2022 Review, we tested and scored 15 trading platforms, focusing on features that are essential for beginning investors. In addition to in-depth testing of each learning center, we looked at which brokers offer unique features like webinars, live seminars, videos, progress tracking, paper (or virtual) trading and interactive educational elements such as quizzes.