You may want to look at using robinhood. They allow for free trades of most stocks and etf's.

I was thinking with them you could buy daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and then sell once a year and buy in your main brokerage. Would save you a good chunk on commissions.

if in a retirement account  taxes are a moot point . the issue with  dividends  if they are in a taxable account you can't control the taxable event  . as an example i can't stop the flow in dividends from my funds  now that i retired and was hoping to get an aca  subsidary . that taxable income co...

When I first started reading about investing, and early retirement I was told to follow a total return strategy. For the most part I was able to stick with that mentality, especially with gold providing only returns and no type of payout - interest or dividend. As my investing experience grew, so di...