The fees of the mainstream brokers are already so low today that they are mostly irrelevant for a Buy & Hold investor.
Your idea that you could successfully identify single stocks that are undervalued and achieve a performance that would be better than an appropriate stock index, is a concept that does not work. Even professional value investor Warren Buffett underperformed the SP500 now over 10 years or more. He himself recommends to the retail investors to buy mostly a cheap and large SP500 ETF, of note.
The fees of the mainstream brokers are already so low today that they are mostly irrelevant for a Buy & Hold investor.
Your idea that you could successfully identify single stocks that are undervalued and achieve a performance that would be better than an appropriate stock index, is a concept that does not work. Even professional value investor Warren Buffett underperformed the SP500 now over 10 years or more. He himself recommends to the retail investors to buy mostly a cheap and large SP500 ETF, of note.