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I'm thinking about opening an account with sharebuilder, but I'm a bit confused. Was looking mostly at the basic plan, says it's $4 per transaction or something, but can only be done on Tuesdays. So... I pay $4 regardless of how much of a stock I buy? How much does it cost when I want to sell that stock? It says something about automatic investments on the site, what does that mean? If someone could just explain how this account works, that would be great. Thanks.

I checked out sharebuilder once. I didn't sign up because of those automatic investments. What that means is you basically by the same stock or several stocks with regular money you contribute every week or every month. It's for long term holding basically. I'm not even sure how you'd sell a stock with their program.

If you want to buy and sell when you want, check out e-trade or ameritrade. I use a site called mbtrading.com, it works pretty well.

You pay $4 per transaction. In other words if you want $20 worth of 5 different stocks, you'd pay $100 (stock purchase) + $20(fees). But if you wanted to buy $1000 worth of one stock your fee would only be $4. It's per trade.

Yes they only trade on Tuesday, that's why its so cheap - bulk trades. You can do real-time trades, but I think it's $15 a trade.

It's really built for people who want to invest a little bit every week or every month on the same 5-10 stocks. But honestly I prefer TD AMeritrade (or one of the other real-time sites) because I just wait til I have a few thousand before I'll even buy a stock or etf. And I don't buy or sell on a regular basis - so no subscription needed for me.

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