"If you invest five thousand dollars in Apple or Tesla, the five or ten dollars you saved in fees won’t have much effect on the ultimate outcome." The author i

"If you invest five thousand dollars in Apple or Tesla, the five or ten dollars you saved in fees won’t have much effect on the ultimate outcome." The author is way out of touch if he thinks this. Many of my friends playing around in the stock market have a portfolio of less than $1000. When I started learning it my portfolio wasn't much bigger. At that level, if you trade even semi-actively, you get eaten alive by fees