Low costs and great service shouldn't be a tradeoff.

• Online equity trade price structure

• Schwab

  One flat fee 

  for all trade sizes

• Merrill 

   (Bank of America Corporation)

  One flat fee

  for all trade sizes

• HSBC

  One flat fee

  for all trade sizes

• Interactive Brokers 

  (IBKR PRO)

  Fee decreases

  with trade size

• Online equity trade commission

• Schwab

  US$0

  per trade¹

• Merrill 

   (Bank of America Corporation)

  US$0

  per trade

• HSBC

  US$24.95

  per trade

• Interactive Brokers 

  (IBKR PRO)

  US$0.0035 per share

  (for <=300K shares/month)

  Minimum US$0.35 per trade

  Maximum 1% of trade value

• Monthly account maintenance fee

• Schwab

  US$0

• Merrill 

   (Bank of America Corporation)

  US$0

• HSBC

  US$0

• Interactive Brokers 

  (IBKR PRO)

  US$0

  (if monthly commissions are more than US$10 or the client has more than US$100,000 in equity)

• Satisfaction Guarantee²

• Schwab

  ✓

• Merrill 

   (Bank of America Corporation)

  -

• HSBC

  -

• Interactive Brokers 

  (IBKR PRO)

  -

• If you buy 2,500 shares of a U.S.-based stock, then sell them a year later.

• Schwab

  US$0

• Merrill

  (Bank of America Corporation)

  US$0

• HSBC

  US$49.90

• Interactive Brokers(IBKR PRO)

  US$17.50