Inactivity Fee

An account is considered inactive when there are less than 2 trades in the past 12 months or if there are less than $10,000 in credit or debit balances.

Index Option Exchange Fees

Effective August 15, 2011 Investrade will begin passing through index option exchange fees. The additional cost to trade select index options is listed below. These fees will be charged in addition to Investrade's standard commission schedule.

Index fees are subject to change without notice.

Options Regulatory Fee (ORF)

Breakdowns of each rate for the individual exchanges are as follows:

Exchange Rate

• ARCA - $0.0055 per contract
• CBOE - $0.0017 per contract
• C2 - $0.0003 per contract
• MIAX - $0.0019 per contract
• Pearl - $0.0018 per contract
• PHLX - $0.0050 per contract

Total: $0.0162

The combined rate for the ORF will be $0.0162 per contract with no minimum per trade.

Updates to fees are made on a best efforts basis, however all fees are subject to change without notice. For current information and updates, please refer to the appropriate web site.

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(a)   uses the Information for more than personal investment purposes;
(b)  plans to furnish or use the Information with any other person(s) as part of any type of business activity (customer service, investor relations, public relations financial planning, etc.) even if it is outside of the Securities marketplace;
(c)   is using the Information as or on behalf of a firm, corporation, partnership, trust or association and not as an individual for personal use;   
(d)   is a securities broker-dealer, registered representative, investment advisor, investment banker, futures commission merchant, commodities introducing broker or commodity trading advisor, money manager, financial planning advisor, member of the Securities Exchange or Association or Futures Contract market, or any owner, partner or associated person of the foregoing;
(e)   is employed by a bank or an insurance company or an affiliate of either performing functions related to securities or commodity futures investment or trading activity; or
(f)    otherwise meets the definition of a professional user, as defined from time to time by any Exchange or similar Information Provider from whom the Subscriber is receiving Information.

SEC TRANSACTION FEE – NEW RATE EFFECTIVE 5/13/2021

Effective May 13, 2021, the Section 31 fee rate applicable to specified securities transactions on the exchanges and in the over-the-counter markets will increase from its current rate of $22.90 per million dollars in transactions to a new rate of $5.10 per million dollars in transactions. See https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-7 for more information.

For more information on the term “charge date,” please refer to Rule 31(a)(3) and Exchange Act Release No. 49928  http://www.sec.gov/rules/final/34-49928.htm.

How to Calculate:

Multiply the sale/principal amount of the transaction by the fee rate. Truncate at the seventh place after the decimal point. Truncate the resulting figure at the fifth place after the decimal point and round up to the nearest cent (Always round up if there is a remainder).

For more information visit the FINRA web site http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrfreqreq.shtml.

Updates to fees are made on a best efforts basis, however all fees are subject to change without notice. For current information and updates, please refer to the appropriate web site.

Short Stock Fee

Based on the recent changes to the short stock rules and increased difficulties to borrow stock, our clearing firm, Hilltop Securities, Inc. will be passing on charges for shorting stock that they must locate outside of their firm. These stocks are typically called hard to borrow securities. The fees can be charged daily and posted to the customer’s account the following business day for settled positions.

The formula for the Hard to Borrow fee (HTB) is the rate times the principal value divided by 360 to come up with the daily charge.  The principal value of the security is calculated by taking the securities price at the end of the previous trading day then multiplied by 1.02 (102%), the figure is then rounded up to the nearest dollar amount.

Updates to fees are made on a best efforts basis, however all fees are subject to change without notice. For current information and updates, please refer to the appropriate web site.

Trading Activity Fees (TAF)

Trading Activity Fees (TAF) are passed through to customers as part of normal transaction processing.

Effective January 3, 2022, the Trading Activity Fee (TAF) rate for sales of covered equity securities will increase from $0.000119 per share for each sale of a covered equity security to $0.000130 per share, with a corresponding increase to the per-transaction cap for covered equity securities from $5.95 to $6.49. The new rate will apply to any sale of a covered equity security subject to the TAF occurring on or after January 3, 2022.

The FINRA (TAF) for option sales is currently $0.002 per contract will increase to $0.00218 per contract and fees for covered debt securities are $0.00075 per bond will increase to $0.00082 per bond, with a maximum assessment of $0.75 per trade will increase to $0.82 per trade (based on 1,000 bonds). 

As an industry transaction standard, FINRA levies a Trading Activity Fee (TAF) on the sale of covered securities pursuant to Section 1 of Schedule A to the FINRA By-Laws. The text of the rule is available in the online FINRA Manual.

Updates to fees are made on a best efforts basis, however all fees are subject to change without notice. For current information and updates, please refer to the appropriate website.