Because your share holding would be
so small the brokerage, even the cheapest around, would end up being a large percentage cost of any overall profits.
Not exact matches
The risk of a broker failing is
small, but the impact is huge (either you lose all your money or you can't access it for a while) and the cost to address the risk is
small (you just need to check 2 accounts instead of 1),
so it seems like a no brainer to just set up accounts at two different
brokerages.
For example, when I sold a significant amount from my taxable
brokerage account to invest in a
small business, I sold index funds in a few lump sums over 6 or
so weeks.
For Canadian
brokerages it would be for whole shares only,
so smaller holdings would not qualify.
As I've mentioned before, they're one of those
brokerages that provides great support for the average
small investor,
so you can also open a no fee retirement account or a Coverdell education savings account with them.
However, I don't want to have to pay $ 7 - 10 in
brokerage fees each time, especially since my purchases are
so small (say, $ 250 each).
Many
brokerage firms only allow ECN access to certain information,
so can be difficult for a
small - time investor to compare all of his options and truly evaluate the state of the market.
There pricing structure hasn't changed since their inception and is
so impressive that it actually encourages new and
small investors to jump into the investment game while also drawing in disgruntled investors from other
brokerages.
Put as much in as they can afford annually, or semi-annually,
so that
brokerage fees are a very
small percent of the purchase.
So to contrast our cover feature on the nation's biggest residential
brokerages, our «For Managers» section this month features the stories of salespeople who've started their own
small companies.
So they began by building some houses and
small apartment buildings and opened a real estate
brokerage company, doing all of it during their off - school hours.