Not exact matches
Assuming you used a
discount brokerage house like Charles Schwab and
paid about $ 9 per trade, you'd be looking
at a $ 63 fee right off the bat, and no costs thereafter as you collected your big oil dividends without any interference from a third - party middleman.
For instance, high volume, experienced traders may want to stick with
brokerages which offer no - frills services
at a
discount, while novice traders or less experienced investors may choose to
pay a bit more for the one - on - one attention of a full service broker.
On the other hand, a self - directed investor with the same $ 500,000 who is buying their own ETFs
at a
discount brokerage will be
paying only small commissions to buy and sell securities (typically $ 10 per transaction) plus whatever the underlying MERs of their investments are.
For example,
at discount brokerage Qtrade, when you buy a Canadian bond with a face value under $ 25,000 you'll
pay $ 24.99.
One problem with that method is that I suspect a lot of investors will set up the account
at TD but they won't switch to a
discount brokerage at the right time or
at all which means in the long run they will end up
paying more fees compared to if they had just started buying ETFs even when the account was fairly small.
The drastic design difference between Desjardins Online
Brokerage's new website and anything
at other Canadian
discount brokerages, however, may spur competitors to
pay attention to the importance of what a site looks and feels like in today's world.
Based on this comparison, if you have $ 10,000 or more of investable funds, you
pay lower fees with robo - advisors WiseBanyan than you would
at the
discount online
brokerage TradeKing.
Ultimately, clients should consider that with the predefined contribution plans,
at least $ 1200 per year is being steered into a
discount brokerage account in order to save
paying $ 100 on balances under $ 10,000 to $ 20,000.
You'll get a 1099 - OID if, in a
brokerage account, you owned an individual bond (or other interest - bearing investment) that was originally purchased
at a
discount — meaning that you
paid less than face value.
Someone just starting with only $ 100 or $ 200 to invest is probably more focused on keeping costs low, because it's hard to get rich when you're
paying $ 49.95
at a full - service
brokerage to invest $ 500 or $ 8.95
at a
discount brokerage to invest $ 100.
On the subject of
paying trailing commissions to non-advice
discount brokerages,
at least one has broken free of the pack.
The company's business model (which rather than commission splitting involves agents
paying only low transaction and monthly fees) initially led many to dismiss Right
At Home as merely a
discount brokerage.
Heck, Refin has conned American investors to
pay valuing a simple
discount brokerage at $ 1.74 Billion on it's sold out IPO stock value as of today.