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Has anyone done or come across with comprehensive comparison between Etoro and other more established international brokers like Captrader, Ameritrade or Interactive Brokers.
Comparison like user friendliness, fee, commission, charges, maintenance charges, annual fee, requirement to trade like once a month, CS support, other pros and cons?

Generally i understand Etoro spread or charges is on the high side. But for retail investor with not much Capital, it might be one of the best option.

As mentioned in post #1130, it's no longer possible to withdraw IB -> TW in USD.
You should have received an email from TW regarding the USD account name change:
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I do have a real US bank account for USD withdrawal via ACH. The processing time is T + 1. This info was omitted in post #1107 as it is irrelevant to most people here.
If you have a US visa and would travel to the big cities in the US, you can easily open bank account with the major banks there as a non-resident.

You do realise that you need to go to US to open an account?  This is because US law requires a person to be there in person to open an account.

These banks are more open towards non-residents: Bank of America, Well Fargo, Chase Bank, TD Bank, Capital One, Citibank, etc.
I was not asked the reason I need the account. Maybe I was lucky.
Minimum deposit for a checking account is usually $1K - $2K. You can check the website of those banks.

I used this blog post as my guide when I opened my account somewhere near New York: how-to-open-a-us-bank-account-as-a-tourist
Scroll through the comments until the end to follow more recent development. Bank policy might change over time.

Not worth it. If you have access to IB/SCB SG, can DIY. That's one of the main reason until today I am not opening a robo account. Stashaway uses US based ETF. DIY can go with Ireland base. Save 15% dividend tax from Unker Sam.
Follow instructions on first page go or with bogle head 3 funds.

Long term wise IB cheaper than > SCB SG.

I don't do ETF. The idea behind ETF is you need to sell to get your money back. I prefer not to sell. Hence I choose to be buy-hold-dividend growth investing.

For me if I go with ETF investing,
1 S&P500 index/dividend aristocrat index
2 Asia Pacific index
3 Global bond index/amanah saham

That's what I did; but yesterday when they asked for an update, I ticked the box "Malaysia doesn't issue TIN".

Not sure got problems or not.

Interacrive broker if you have the moo...

u can try firsttrade

Interactive broker. No platform fee. No dividend fees. Wide market. Basically all US, UK, CANADA, EU, JAPAN, HK, SG, AU market.

If you have no money for interactive broker (min USD100k or generate trading commission of USD10/month) use whitelabels of interactive broker  like tradestation global, Captrader, zacktrade.

May I know anyone declared "Has financial account(s) at financial institution(s)outside Malaysia?" (i found this during submission of income tax)

Just declare. They already know you got account overseas.

now tdameritrade sg support is shit true to that, used to be better, not sure because they were bought over by charles schwab then don't bother about services just wait for take over and walk away. Their US support counterpart is way much better. True that even ach transfer from US banks also TD not accept i wonder why? interactive broker ok with ach. And also their sg deposit only accept from dbs online but not other sg banks wtf. their funding method need much improvement.

Hi, this question probably have been asked to death, but here goes. I always bought four US-domiciled ETFs through Dollar Cost Averaging. They are VOO, VTI, IWF and VNQ. Lately I just realized that my dividends are withheld 30%. I have questions below

1) Is there any offshore/overseas equivalent ETFs that I should buy over their US equivalent
2) It's the dividend that they withhold but not the capital gain right?

I buy them through Singapore's brokerage iOCBC, if that's any help, since I work and live there nowadays even though not PR and not Sg citizen.