Thread:Snowdog67/@comment-31677686-20180222010618/@comment-29954643-20180222063605

I believe that you have to pay that Buy Transaction fee out of your brokerage account. So if you buy 200 shares at 50p/sh, the value after the buy is 10,000 less the 10 fee. The gain is then only calculated from there (at that point, value is only 9990, not 10,000). This was my reasoning. - El

Hey, Snowdog, did you get this from a Math quiz book. What is the answer LOL