Ok I'm a slow learner but I just got wacked over the back of my head and I see the light.
I am currently with Merrill with $530,000 in wife and my IRA's and as I head into ER I have really been going over all my expenses.
I hardly ever trade stocks, I'm kinda of a buy mutual fund and hold type of person but a week ago the price on a stock I liked went down enough to where I wanted to by it. I purchased 300 shares of a $27 stock and Merrill wacked me with a $200 fee. I looked further and noticed there were $100 yearly fees on each account and the funds they put me in had quite high expenses which would be fine if they out performed my no load funds but they didn't.
I want to pull out our money and transfer it to another company and I was considering Fedelity and Vanguard.
So I thought I'd come here for some advice.
Vanguard, Fidelity or someone else. What do you think?

I am currently with Merrill with $530,000 in wife and my IRA's and as I head into ER I have really been going over all my expenses.
I hardly ever trade stocks, I'm kinda of a buy mutual fund and hold type of person but a week ago the price on a stock I liked went down enough to where I wanted to by it. I purchased 300 shares of a $27 stock and Merrill wacked me with a $200 fee. I looked further and noticed there were $100 yearly fees on each account and the funds they put me in had quite high expenses which would be fine if they out performed my no load funds but they didn't.
I want to pull out our money and transfer it to another company and I was considering Fedelity and Vanguard.
So I thought I'd come here for some advice.
Vanguard, Fidelity or someone else. What do you think?