I was curious about what was available in the self-directed portion of the 401k that is available to me at work. It is basically a Schwab brokerage account. So, I set up my username/password with Schwab and went browsing their offerings. I went looking for index funds, and I saw that VTSMX (among others) was available for a minimum $10k investment, $75 fee at buy time, no fee at sale.
That fee sounds pretty ridiculous to me but as I've never had a brokerage account, I can't say for sure. Opinions?