Hello, may I know if anyone here signed up for a Charles Schwab account? Are all US ETFs indeed commission free or only applicable for Schwab issued ETFs? Thanks.

Hi Ozak, the 0.6% is charged by the bourse? That means if we use local broker, we have to pay local brokerage when sell plus the 0.6%? Thanks.

Thanks for your reply Ozak.
I mean the US bursa. Oh when I called CS, they told me there is a 0.6% charge on sell which is charged by the exchange. 0.06 cents per sell is charged by the exchange? then I guess CS would be a much better choice than maybank. In comparison, maybank will charge 0.4% per transaction but for CS only sell there’a a charge of 0.06 cents. Is this a correct conclusion?

Go test water with USD100.00
Forget about using TD Ameritrade. Need to wait super long time.

i currently have an US account in Schwab. Do i need to convert it to international or can use as is? i heard if they find out then gonna close the account for violation of policy since once the account holder moved out of USA then has to convert to international. Although not always happens

Sorry for interrupting so from Msian perspective investing with IBKR entail some sort of risk which I think other Msian posters have posted before correct? With recent samtradefx hoo-ha (not the first but neither the last) in Spore it make investors more cautious what they go into. Understand IBKR is big almost unable to fail but we all know history like Lehman Brothers, Arthur Andersen (used to be one of the big five accounting firm)  go missing etc

I hope Msian investors don't put all their eggs into one basket.