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- Fee per contract
- $0.65 per contract
- to open a contract
- Exercise and assignment
- Free
- no fee per event
- Approval
- Naked
- up to naked short options
- Margin rate
- 10.63%
- on a $50,000 balance
- Countries
- US residents; qualifying countries via Schwab One International
- from the broker's own pages
What you can trade
From the options agreement
- 0DTE
- Index options (SPX)
- Options on futures
- Spreads in an IRA
- Portfolio margin
- Paper trading
- 24/7 support
PlatformsWeb, Desktop, Mobile, API
Cost to open
Per-contract fee only
- One cash-secured put1 contract
- $0.65
- Ten-lot iron condor40 contracts
- $26
- Twenty covered calls20 contracts
- $13
- One turn of the wheelput assigned, call exercised, 2 contracts
- $1.30
Exchange fees and per-order minimums are extra where the fee schedule has them.
What Schwab costs for the way you trade
A year of fees from Schwab's published prices, checked 7 and 8 October 2026.
- Schwab standard price$0.91 a trade, 0.8% of your premium
- $87 a year
- Among 21 brokers open to residents of the United StatesLowest is Firstrade at $3.67 a year, plus small regulatory fees it does not publish
- 9th on the fees it publishes
Not counted because Schwab does not publish them: options regulatory fee, SEC fee, FINRA trading activity fee, live options quote price.
QuantWheel
Sync-only with QuantWheel
Direct integration. QuantWheel reads your positions and trades at Schwab and gives you personalized suggestions.
Compare Schwab with
Brokers that serve the same countries, compared fact by factFees explained
What each line of the fee schedule means for an options orderSchwab
What changed at Schwab
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 aboveSchwab
Facts from Schwab's own fee schedule and options agreement, checked 8 October 2026.