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11/6/2002

SEC Fees

By Richard Philip Cadway
This Newsletter is not a public release - for members only
SEC fees are paid by the trader every time he or she sells stock. When you buy stock the SEC decided to be kind and not charge a fee. Look at your trade confirmations and you will see the SEC fees charged to your sell trades.
Much of the following statistical information was retrieved from internet searches. I make no guarantee as to its accuracy, but I welcome you to verify my findings.
 
$2.3 Billion yearly income for the SEC. Not bad! Starting to look like a MacDonald's hamburger tally. Just think of the share volume that is reported each day and consider the fantastic amount of money that changes hands. Hey, wait a minute, I think much of that money belongs to us, the public. Oh yes, the mutual funds and institutions that move your money in the 401K plans, etc. probably make most of the trades. I guess we pay SEC fees more often than we realize.
 
SEC fees are calculated by multiplying the principal amount of your sell trade by .000034. That sure doesn't look like much money, but let's see what it costs an active daytrader.
Suppose you make 300 trades in one month. Assume that you make 1000 share trades and you trade only Microsoft at $60.00 per share.
1000 shares x $60 = $60,000. per trade
$60,000. per trade x 150 sell trades in the month = $9,000,000. (9 million dollars)
$9 mil x .000034 = $306. paid in SEC fees for the month
Now multiply that by 12 for a 1 year cost of $3,672. (that would buy a nice toy!)
 
The bad part of this fee structure is that you pay the fee whether you make money on the trade or not. You should add this cost of doing business to the commission you must pay to do the trade.
 
Isn't it strange that the SEC pulls in about $2.3 billion a year, but we hear on TV that they do not have the man power to do their job? Isn't it also strange that they take in about 6 times what they need to run the SEC as it is run today? What do you think about the government's moving the excess money to the treasury's general revenue fund?
The SEC fees might have been reduced by legislation. To see how much you are paying in SEC fees, divide the SEC fee paid on one of your sell trades by the principal amount of that trade.

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