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To: Thehammer who wrote (30689)	2/10/2019 7:59:41 PM
From: JimisJim	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 34328

No, not at all... it was a good/fair question I thought I knew the answer to, but not quite 50% correct as it turned out... I guess I didn't worry too much about it as commissions from my swing trading days were a significant premium, not discount -- a cost of trading... had my share of free trades, etc., but seemed like there were always fees of some sort... and back in the day (college and a few years after) I was only in mutual funds and the commissions on those were terrible for low-balance investors as I was back then -- which meant you really really really had to make sure you wanted to stay married to a position in a mutual fund... and of course the issue of buying/selling based on closing price only. So I guess when I ended up with TD, I just viewed lack of commissions on the synthetic drips seemed like a discount compared to the old pre-online/discount brokerages became the norm. Proves once again, long-held assumptions should be vetted every now and then or one can end up quite unhappy.

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