I've opened up so many brokerage accounts over the years, mostly because it's free, no minimum balance etc. and easy to switch if a particular broker pizzes me off lol.
but many have been gobbled up, merged etc.
It's hard to even keep track of some.
TradeMonster (which was run by the Najerian bros of CNBC notoriety) bought out by Optionshouse, which then was taken over by Etrade.
so now I have several Etrade accounts,....all with different commissions lol.
$2.95 per trade for the former optionshouse one, $4.95 for the former Trademonster one, and $6.95 for "regular" Etrade one.
wtf? lol. weird that they didn't change the commissions to the standard Etrade commission when they merged, but $2.95 aint bad.
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