Looks like the saudis are bent on scorched earth with their commentary, crude down to 55.6x again

yeah.. local brokers tend to charge round this range. but if you switch onto those US discount brokers like IB.. way cheaper.

i can say cimb's itrade is ok. had been using it for sgx and nyse. all is good.
haven't used the others - thailand, indon and hongkong.

i hv no idea what system or which developer did it...

not perfect but works fine most of the time. not complaining.

can use on pc or ipad, can do e-ipo, foreign bourses, can transfer money between trading and bank acc,.... i find it good enough.

When it involves real life hard-earned money, you just need to switch without giving second chance.

I am using this for a while.
initially i could not even log in!
but now its fast, user friendly and can buy-sell easily.
except the brokerage is dead high, at a total of almost 1% 2 ways. Platform wise it is ok.

'archieve share'? new to me. maybe they dont have such a complete portfolio for trading? strange!
i have no probs in using the platform atm.
but the brokerage is dead high!!!

ETFs? from ARCA exchange?
yeah - HLeB has to call over to IRIS partner to add. pain experienced before.

other than that, ok lar generally pain-free other than cost if U use it as a trading platform (instead of retirement accumulation / investment platform) 

ah... this arca thingy...

was told by cimb that they had to do the same thing before but starting early last year, it was incorporated into main itrade platform. so now, can just buy n sell like any other. no pain!

and yes, agree the cost of trading is too high, can't do. investment, ok.

OptionsXpress for trading though i may need to lower my capital usage until i can verify properly a fellow forumer's posting on "Death/Estate taxes on US assets by aliens" - anything above USD60K may be taxed 45%+/-. IRS via email was no help. OX.. er.. no help either.

Looking for US Death/Estate tax experts in Malaysia is a pain for such a small ciku like me 
Anyone can clarify?

Was planning to do investing in ETFs via OX as well due to the pains of ARCA via HLeB.
Yes - EVERY DANG NEW ARCA - call in first (that was what i was told).

My third option - waiting for a response from my Financial Planner - she said Kenanga or something has systems to ARCA online platform.

Waah.. DWTI is 3x leverage BEAR share of Oil. 

It's ETN... not ETF - be careful 

In implementation, some ETN tracking are way off.. especially velocity shares.
So, use it as it is. Just a trading vehicle and short term hold. Take profits when you get the chance.
Don't treat this as investment. 

oil seems to have found a floor at usd48-49 for now.

OptionsXpress for trading though i may need to lower my capital usage until i can verify properly a fellow forumer's posting on "Death/Estate taxes on US assets by aliens" - anything above USD60K may be taxed 45%+/-. IRS via email was no help. OX.. er.. no help either.

Looking for US Death/Estate tax experts in Malaysia is a pain for such a small ciku like me 
Anyone can clarify?

Was planning to do investing in ETFs via OX as well due to the pains of ARCA via HLeB.
Yes - EVERY DANG NEW ARCA - call in first (that was what i was told).

My third option - waiting for a response from my Financial Planner - she said Kenanga or something has systems to ARCA online platform.

Foreign discount/online broker. There are many out there. More popular one are Interactive Broker, OptionXpress, TDAmeritrade. I personally use TDA although the commission is not the lowest.

BTW, why TradeMonster and not others?

These are published commission. If your volume is high, you can request for special rate. My stock rate is USD5 per trade and option is USD1.25 per contract. The bigger the volume, the better rate you can get. Brother J were offered around USD1 per option contract due to his very high volume. Anyway, TradeMonster probably has special rate for volume customer as well. Good to go then. I like ThinkOrSwim (TOS) trading platform on TDA very much that I'm staying put although IB is cheaper.

what magnitude of deposit for trademonster? how much leverage can u get from it?

i do want to explore this for trading later. esp seeing how volatile us equities can be!
about local ib's, they arent too bad overall. i like the fact that i can see all my holdings, trades, balances, diff currencies on 1 page; can move around the funds incl parked dividends easily albeit going thru rm each time (so, gotta do only when favorable); total holdings all currencies used to leverage at any bourse. only thing it is surely too expensive to trade foreign stocks frequently.

until i get into something like you, i will stick to bursa for fast n furious trading. quite ok as i get 0.21% for my trades t+3.

u mean u trade 1:1? deposit usd10k, trade 88 aapl shares?

if so, cost of capital is a consideration...

u mean u trade 1:1? deposit usd10k, trade 88 aapl shares?

if so, cost of capital is a consideration...