tastytrade charges $1 per contract to open an options trade and $0 to close it, capped at $10 per leg. Firstrade charges $0 on both sides, every time, no cap needed because there’s nothing to cap. On paper that makes Firstrade the cheaper broker. In practice, which one actually costs you less depends on how…

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Cboe’s extended trading sessions for single-stock and ETF options went live Wednesday, October 19, 2026, after two prior delays. Seven brokers confirmed support on day one, per Cboe’s own launch announcement, and three of the largest retail options platforms were not among them. Updated October 26, 2026: Webull added support three days after launch, narrowing…

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Both Interactive Brokers and E*TRADE charge $0.65 per options contract, so the fee line on your statement looks the same either way. The decision that actually matters is what each platform lets you do with that contract: IBKR gives you access to more than 150 markets and a path to lower costs as your volume…

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Firstrade charges $0 per options contract. E*TRADE charges $0.65. That one number is the entire decision for a lot of traders, and it should not be, because the $0.65 buys something real: Morgan Stanley-backed research and a trading platform built specifically for options flow. Whether that’s worth paying for depends on what you actually do…

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Webull charges nothing per options contract. E*TRADE charges $0.65. That one number decides most of this comparison before you even get to the platforms, but it is not the whole story: E*TRADE comes with Morgan Stanley’s research desk attached, and Webull does not have an equivalent. Which gap matters more depends on what you actually…

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Interactive Brokers charges $0.65 per options contract. Firstrade charges nothing at all. For most retail traders that sounds like the whole comparison, but it isn’t: IBKR gives you a paper trading account, futures access, and 150+ global markets, while Firstrade gives you a simple, free US stock and options platform with native English/Chinese bilingual support.…

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TradeStation and Firstrade sit at opposite ends of the same decision: pay for tools, or pay nothing and skip them. TradeStation charges $0.80 per contract at the retail-default volume tier and hands you EasyLanguage strategy automation, futures access, and paper trading. Firstrade charges $0 per contract and gives you none of that, just clean execution.…

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Fidelity and E*TRADE charge the same $0.65 per contract for options, so this comparison isn’t decided by price. It’s decided by two things: whether you can trade same-day expiration options at all, and whether you want to paper trade a multi-leg setup before you risk real money. Fidelity says no to the first. E*TRADE says…

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E*TRADE charges $0.65 per options contract. TradeStation charges $0.80 per contract if you trade fewer than 500 contracts a month, the opposite of what older comparisons still claim. That’s the first thing to get straight before picking between them, because the real split between these two brokers isn’t price, it’s what each platform is built…

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Robinhood charges $0 per options contract. TradeStation charges $0.80 per contract if you trade fewer than 500 contracts a month, dropping in tiers as volume rises. That gap looks decisive until you look at what each platform actually gives you for the money: Robinhood is a phone-first app with no paper trading and no futures,…

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