Completely agree. Open a self-directed account at your bank, ,move your investments there (you can simply leave it in cash while you do your homework), do some research on which ETFs give you the best bang for your buck, and buy them. 

Then take your time and learn how the market works. You may decide to never trade any further than the ETFs you've already bought, but it's important to know whats happening. No one else will ever take as much care of your money as you. Or as much care as you should. 

I don't trade a whole  lot but when I do it costs me less than 10 bucks a trade. Laziness and comfort essentially keeps me from checking to see if I can whittle that down. 250 a trade is crazy - those are 1975 prices, indexed for inflation and to buy brokers bigger boats. .