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QuantWheel
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- Fee per contract
- $1.25 + $6.95 per trade
- to open a contract
- Exercise and assignment
- $6.95 + $1.25 per contract
- per event
- Approval
- Naked
- up to naked short options
- Margin rate
- 6.25%
- on a $50,000 balance
- Countries
- Canadian residents only
- from the broker's own pages
What you can trade
From the options agreement
- 0DTE (Not published)
- Index options (SPX) (Not published)
- Options on futures (Not published)
- Spreads in an IRA, not offered
- Portfolio margin (Not published)
- Paper trading (Not published)
- 24/7 support, not offered
PlatformsWeb, Mobile
Cost to open
Per-contract fee only
- One cash-secured put1 contract
- $1.25
- Ten-lot iron condor40 contracts
- $50
- Twenty covered calls20 contracts
- $25
- One turn of the wheelput assigned, call exercised, 2 contracts
- Not published
Exchange fees and per-order minimums are extra where the fee schedule has them.
What CIBC Investor's Edge costs for the way you trade
A year of fees from CIBC Investor's Edge's published prices, checked 7 and 8 October 2026.
- CIBC Investor's Edge standard price$13 a trade, 11% of your premium
- $1,220 a year
- Among 5 brokers open to residents of CanadaLowest is Wealthsimple at $0.00 a year, plus small regulatory fees it does not publish
- 4th on the fees it publishes
Not counted because CIBC Investor's Edge does not publish them: clearing fee, options regulatory fee, SEC fee, live options quote price, platform fee.
QuantWheel
Not connected
No integration. QuantWheel cannot read accounts at CIBC Investor's Edge, so you cannot use it with QuantWheel.
Compare CIBC Investor's Edge with
Brokers that serve the same countries, compared fact by factFees explained
What each line of the fee schedule means for an options orderCIBC Investor's Edge
What changed at CIBC Investor's Edge
Every fee, term and policy we track, with the day it movedNo change recorded since the last check. A change to a fee or a rule appears here on the day we record it.
Questions people ask
Answered from the documents aboveCIBC Investor's Edge
Facts from CIBC Investor's Edge's own fee schedule and options agreement, checked 8 October 2026.