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understanding option commission costs
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the option commissions with ib for trading in the us market are between $0.25 to $0.70 per contract. however if you are looking to trade in canada, where you are from, their option commission for canada are $1.50 per contract (as you mention in your question). note that each contract is for 100 shares, so if you wanted to trade the equivalent of 1000 shares, you would need to trade 10 contracts, so you would have to multiply the above commissions by 10 to get your final costs. (i.e. $2.50 to $7.00 in the us and $15.00 in canada).
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