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Tuesday, 02/22/2011 8:29:59 PM

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:29:59 PM

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FWIW post for any interested traders and imvho...

Began a switch-over process from ST to ZECCO today and... wow. I would encourage any user of ST to investigate just how badly you are being raped on pretty much anything over 100K share trades. Sad it took me this long to care~ then again, I only started trading in pennyland about a year+ ago and the share quantities were always much smaller above ground prior, therefore not such a huge diff. Still talking $2.50/trade diff at very least for any trade/any exchange though, which over the course of a year can add up bigly. That dough++ will be in someone's pocket EOY, yours or theirs imvho. ST hits you hard on the extra fee they charge over a certain share qty and the multi-M sh trade qty fee diff between the two brokerages I can now see is the diff between being a dope or being smart imvho. Outrageous differential, well over the top and I'm feeling a little dopey right now I let it go on this long w/o seeing the light ;).

Further, evil NITE and ST are essentially one and the same, and how I stood being part of that madness for 10 years I have no clue. But in my case, just a situation of starting somewhere with e-trading back in the day (when $7/trade++ beat most other standard still call-in broker fees of $29 per trade), and sticking with it over time because it was familiar ~ rather than noticing any other reliable options coming into play as the years went by. I think back then the only other e-platform besides ST was at about $14.99/trade. Anyway, not sure how many other ST users are out there in ihub-land but for those that may be, just sayin'. Take it for what it's worth to ya. Next. glta

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