NW-Bound
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I always look at the total return of all my accounts, and I have 20 accounts over several brokerages. Some of low-return accounts are intended that way, for example the Treasury Direct accounts. Even of the stock accounts, I hold the highly volatile stocks in the Merrill Edge accounts, and keep the more stable ones at other brokerages. The simple reason for that is that I have the no-commission privilege with Merrill Edge and do more trading there than at Schwab for example, who only went zero-commission recently.
Hence, I cannot look at just my Merrill Edge accounts in a bull year and claim trading prowess. These accounts are also the ones that drop the most in a market correction.
Quicken makes it easy for me to see everything on a single screen, and I even include the cash in my banking accounts, my HSA, etc... Every liquid account is there.
Hence, I cannot look at just my Merrill Edge accounts in a bull year and claim trading prowess. These accounts are also the ones that drop the most in a market correction.
Quicken makes it easy for me to see everything on a single screen, and I even include the cash in my banking accounts, my HSA, etc... Every liquid account is there.