You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. By Anjelica Tan , Reporter From Kiplinger's Personal Finance, June The appeal of exchange-traded funds is undeniable: Now you can add one more plus: Big online brokers are fighting fiercely for customers by letting them trade certain ETFs without commissions. We based our judgment on the number and quality of free ETFs, their expense ratios, and any fees that may apply.

Of course, you can trade funds that are not part of a free-ETF program at standard commission rates, which are listed in the table at right. The firms are listed in order of the number of free ETFs offered. We use the term ETFs to refer to all similar products, including exchange-traded notes and commodity and currency trusts.

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They include its own Schwab ETFs and funds from six other families, including PowerShares and State Street Global SPDR.

In addition to the standard fare—U. The average expense ratio of the free funds is on the higher end of our list, but the range of offerings makes Schwab attractive for ETF investors.

Schwab is one of two firms on this list that do not charge for selling a fee-free ETF quickly. TD Ameritrade offers commission-free ETFs from eight providers, among them iShares and Vanguard.

The funds include a handful of commodity trusts and one currency trust, as well as ETFs that track standard indexes. Its 88 free ETFs focus on specialty and alternative funds from Deutsche Bank, Global X and WisdomTree.

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Vanguard offers 67 Vanguard-labeled ETFs without commission. All of its free ETFs are either stock or bond funds, making Vanguard suitable for the keep-it-simple crowd. Vanguard does not levy an early-exit fee. Fidelity recently upped the number of its free ETFs from 31 to 66—one under its own label and the rest from iShares.

Traditional stock and bond funds dominate the list, but also included are four ETFs that invest in commodity stocks.

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