Ameritrade and Charles Schwab are big in US. They are unlikely to cheat you. They do have physical office. Charles Schwab is known to have one of the best customer support out there.

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Malaysia doesn't have big gold mining companies. So duh.. there is none in KLSE. For the commodity related stocks, it's mostly OnG or Plantations on KLSE.. That's a reflection of our economy.

Last few years, commodity generally has sucked as a long term investment, but u can still make money if u are observant enough. Look at the few months price chart of Felda. Even such a sad company could have made you nearly 100% returns fif u buy in January!

And if u want pure gold. There is the Affin Hwang Goldetf (0828EA). I personally have some of that atm.

This post has been edited by Cubalagi: May 18 2019, 11:39 PM

Now a bit more than 10% of portfolio.

Im not bias towards gold st all. If I'm bias ithe allocation should b much higher right?

Gold is not a good recession hedge to be honest. Bonds are better. Gold is for something worse.. Crisis, conflicts,, debasement of currency etc. Its insurance investment. Early last year my gold allocation was less than 5%. Now it's more than 10%. I slowly top up when I can. It's just my sense of the risks of economy f**k up has increased. I also hv bonds n cash (MYR n USD) n some stocks of course (hence I'm more active here).

Bond funds, that's the easiest

To open Charles Schwab, you need at least $20,000 (Around RM100k+). I don't have that kind of money (I'm only 23). If you have you can enjoy commission free ETFs or <$5 per trade.

Ameritrade has no restriction. I am actually opening an account with them but there seems to be a problem with one of their online forms. I heard Ameritrade has some sophisticated tools for investing. They have commission free ETFs too but Charles Schwab is still preferable over Ameritrade. So, people usually use Charles Schwab to trade but Ameritrade to research.

For the common investor, they can only invest in bonds using a bond fund.
If you are a sophisticated investor with high net worth (>RM500k to invest), you can invest in individual bonds directly.

For normal investors there is now Retail Bond offered by via iFAst (Fundsupermart). Min RM1k.

I have been using TD Ameritrade since 2006. Back then and until 2016, my trading account was handled by Ameritrade US.

In 2016, my Ameritrade account was transferred to be handled by TD Ameritrade Asia (based in Singapore). So now, all correspondences come from either Singapore branch or their customer service in US.

Yes, Ameritrade has a lot of different trading tools so you might have to go through a test to meet the MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) approval. I did it several months back. No big deal if you pay attention to the training.

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Which one are you looking at ? Inari looks good but won't enter yet

inari and MI looks good.
But i only assess Inari past performance so far so...penta those no time to study.

1.20 can enter partly, if drop to 1.00 enter again.. hopefully no more bad news..........

I am still holding on to Frontken though. Got a feeling everything will drop further

wa, im impressed by frontken resistant to US news..
good jewel u holding
might look into it if got huge discount since it is more diversify than the other two I mentioned

oil drop again. haizzz

does anyone use Interactive Brokers? How do you deposit money there?

Do they charge any fees for deposit?

mflour results looks good

i still remember frontken was only trading around 30cents to 40cents last 1 or 2 years ago

how time has changed

Ya man, Hopefully their O&G pick up, they are cautiously optimistic , last i heard their inquiries went up so hopefully those translates into something more concrete

Ya man,friend recommended it to me at that time, managed to get in and out a couple of times till today. Good growth as their PE was quite low before this recent run up.

We will see how the trade war affects the semi players in local market.