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what is the average cost of a portfolio on a trading site?
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it sounds for the most part you are a 'buy and hold' type investor and continue to contribute monthly.  i follow the same philosophy and continue to contribute monthly as well.  i use questrade.com as my online broker. for trading it costs a penny per share with a minimum cost of $4.95 (so if you only buy 100 shares you will still pay $4.95) up to a maximum of $9.95 per trade (so if you buy 10,000 shares you only pay $9.95. three trades at $4.95 per month across the year would be $178.20.  this is assuming you are trading less then 495 share each trade.  so switching to questrade would save you an additional $111.80 per year!  multiply over number of year before you retire plus compound interest which could accrue and that can quite a bit of extra savings. you pay nothing else to questrade either.  no management fees, etc.  you manage the accounts.
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