with miserable rm, still costly to buy more even with correction.

will really have to pick carefully.

xle... i'll buy more at 73; xlv, will top up at 69.
meanwhile, my holidays will be restricted to klang-pj-kl, very acceptable.

cimb's itrade offer several overseas bourses to buy/sell online - nyse, nasdaq, hkse, sgx, thailand, indon. us markets include etf's. others like uk, australia - can only do offline thru broker.

not sure but i think mbb offers the same. rhb can't do us etf's online... not surprised becos recently someone reported hlb also cannot.

others may not be using local ib's but foreign brokerage houses. the former is a lot more expensive than the latter in terms of min brokerage, so not good for trading but ok for longer term holding. the former's main benefit is you can leverage yr total holdings in all bourses n currencies for any trade in any bourse, e.g. with sgx stocks paid up, you can trade us stocks if u wish.

my experience with cimb's itrade for foreign equities has been fine, incl reliability of platform, spread of fx and processing of dividends.