Traphagen Financial Group

• A percentage of assets under your management
• Hourly charges

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

The brochure lists different fees for different services or strategies. See the firm's brochure (dated March 2, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

$2,278,123,079 as of October 2026, filing dated March 2, 2026.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

• Financial planning services
• Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses

Legal name

Traphagen Investment Advisors LLC

Also doing business as

TRAPHAGEN CPAS AND WEALTH ADVISORS

Registration

SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.

Registered since

1999 (27 years)

Employees

Total: 18. Performing investment advisory functions: 16.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

States registered or notice-filed

16 states or jurisdictions

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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

1 Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

• 11.C(5) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever imposed a civil money penalty on the firm or an advisory affiliate, or ordered the firm or an advisory affiliate to cease and desist from an activity?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Regulatory assets under management: $922,269,756 in the October 2021 data and $2,278,123,079 in the October 2026 data, up 147%.

Total employees: 10 in October 2021 and 18 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

1. April 2026
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 14 to 16.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $1,898,214,989 to $2,278,123,079 (+20%).
   • Registered or notice-filed in MD, VA.
2. January 2026
   • No longer registered or notice-filed in VT.

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.