Hi guys, I'm a newbie who just learn about investment. Does anyone know what is the difference betweeen DIY ETF (via Ameritrade) and Stashaway? I know that Stashaway is also a platform which invest in multiple ETF. If you sifu will choose one, which one will you choose? Ameritrade or Stashaway? Thanks!

Ic... Terus captrader wire back to ringgit option not available? Why malaysia~

If available, lots of people will sign up for it !

Why Malaysia~~~ indeed

Funds are available to withdraw 3 days after depositing.

No problem to empty the account, assuming no margin is in use.

transfer funds from POSB to IB.. is super fast . it gets updated in about an hour or so...

Faster than MKE..!!!

But trading fees offset the $10 USD inactivity fees .. if you DCA into a few ETFs every month, you're likely to spend close to $10 on trading fees anyway. Considering most other brokers have higher fees, I don't think this $10 is a big deal

buy sell buy sell.. sure can reach USD10

can buy SGX. brokerage is SG 2.50 still cheaper than anything in Singapore as we are Malaysian.

I where got USD100K? also dun think i trust it enough yet to put in so much

i buy HKEX SGEX USD.. hv no idea yet how they calculate the USD10

convert all brokerage to USD and offset ?

I guess trial and error. after 1 month see what happens.

You can deposit US$ 5K or equivalent in any currency supported by IB. No need to convert.
Any SG bank with FAST transfer will do, for free transfer.

Sorry, does IB == Interactive Brokers?

You can withdraw to any bank account in your own name, anywhere in the world except sanctioned countries.
IB offers withdrawal via SWIFT (all supported currencies), ACH(USD) or SEPA (EUR).

IB have no minimum. Open with zero.

i just bank in whatever amount.. even SGD1K also can..

using what?

Hi might be a noob question here

Said i started investing with ETF with captrader now
and keeping it loooooooooong term until retired only withdraw

said by that time my portfolio might be few mil
would there be any issue to transfer few mil from captrader > SG account > MY bank account?

since it is a large amount and might fall under BNM monitoring?

Hi guys, should I put my money into EPF or invest into ETF until retirement. Which one can give me more $$$?

cherroy

I've got a question:

Say I'm interested in S&P500, so I'll find an ETF to track that.
Is it safe to say that we'll never make a loss in the long term??

For example, if you buy Apple, but Apple may go bankrupt. Maybe the stock price went down and I didn't exit in time, until it got delisted from the stock exchange.
In the case of ETF, if Apple got delisted from S&P500, another company will replace its position, right?? So this ETF will never go bankrupt??

So ETF is all to gain, nothing to lose in the long term??
If you hold an ETF, when the intrinsic companies change, it doesn't affect you in the long term, does it??

Sorry! I'm not sure if my question makes sense.

Just to add more explanation.

elea88, I assume you need HKD for HKEX. IB does not have the pair SGD.HKD. So you need to convert twice, SGD -> USD -> HKD. You can follow the suggestion by rjb123 for SGD -> USD (meaning to BUY the pair USD.SGD).
Then you need to SELL the pair USD.HKD to get your HKD.

Some basic concept about forex trading. For a currency pair, i.e USD.SGD, the first currency (USD) is the base currency, the second currency (SGD) is the quote currency. 
Assumed 1 USD = 1.3514 SGD.
When you :

1) buy 10,000 USD.SGD, you will get 10,000 USD. For this BUY, 13,514 SGD will be deducted from your IB account. The commission charged is 2 USD. Buying a currency pair will give you the base/first currency.

2) sell 10,000 USD.SGD, you will get 13,514 SGD. For this SELL, 10,000 USD will be deducted from your IB account. The commission charged is 2 USD. Selling a currency pair will give you the quote/second currency.

IB has a youtube channel with tutorials, i.e. Forex with WebTrader 

Hope this helps.

In webtrader, I can find ICBC by just typing 1398. See picture attached. The first one (SEHK) is ICBC stock listed in HKEX.
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How do you search for it?