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No matter what your stock broker or financial planner may tell you, cheap stock trading online is a very smart financial, and educational decision. Many brokers and planners look down upon online trading because it takes away from their business and allows investors to trade stocks without their help. Since they get paid commissions off of the trades and investments you make, they want you to go through them every time you buy or sell a stock. Therefore they will tell you what a bad idea investing online is.

The truth is, it's a great idea. First of all, it will save you a lot of money. The average fee to buy or sell shares of any stock, no matter how many shares or how much they're worth, is a lot more through a broker than you will spend on a cheap stock trading website. A broker will run you between forty five and sixty dollars per trade. Online, you could spend as little as three or four dollars. The trade is just as secure online as it is through a