1. Display real time market watch, historical data's, graphs with almost without none delay. 2. Real time stock trading without calling or visiting broker office. 3. Investing in IPO, Mutual Funds and Bonds. 4. Check the trading history; demat account balance and bank account balance at any time. 5. Provide online tools like market watch, graphs and recommendations to do analysis of stocks. 6. Place offline orders for buying or selling stocks. 7. Set alert to inform you certain activity on the stock through email or sms. 8. Customer service through Email or Chat. 9. Secure transactions. 10. IPO Allotment directly to your dmate account. 11. You can check IPO allocation online. Disadvantages Online Stock Trading: 1. Online stock broker's website performance. Sometime the website to too slow or not enough user friendly. 2. Little long learning curve. Especially for people who don't know much about computer. 3. Brokerages are little high. Below is the detail comparison of major Online Stock Trading websites in India. This comparison is to help investor to take calculated decision while searching for new trading portal.