The good thing, there's a little choices for the local retail players to access US market.

MIDF Invest - owned by PNB
https://www.midfinvest.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobC...ASAAEgJYHfD_BwE

Rakuten Trade - owned by Kenanga Investors Berhad
https://www.rakutentrade.my/

All this trading most important is the "fees" too. As it will eat into your return long term/compounded. Basically you want to be investors, not speculators going in and out trading, and lost in bunch of fees in trade. Your trade should be infrequent and really buys into stock that you foresee/analyze growing thus growing ur investment.

Buying Index fund is easier as u buy basically the whole market rather then pick and choose needle in haystack and have trust the US market will keep rising.

Anyway, the capital injection back to the US market is huge, with other countries accessing them and people like those in Malaysia now putting their capital there. The general reading now the is the US stock market is over valued and high inflation now for their goods. The US feds should stop printing money. Bubble is YUGE now.....

I hope not only US these platform opens up, what about HKSE or Indian Stock exchange, show them a little love too. Don't blow capital to US, the other place need some too.

Looking at our sad KLSE....hahahaha, show a little love here too. There are good stocks here too.

I think we put too much on rates on choosing platform if we want to be investors and not traders. I hope not we are not DAY TRADING on the S&P 500 index!! Certainly not.

You gonna go in there, use a platform YOU TRUST with your money, better it's regulated by law of your country. If anything happen, you are protected.

So you go in S&P index, think its a fair price at that time, put in 100,000 there and that's it. 1 time....maybe few months, years, u have capital accumulated and put in again, when it's fair and hopefully it grows. Your trade probably infrequent if ur investors.

What's USD8, if your 100K after 10 years, u hope compounded and grow to be 3, 4 x.....later.

You buy at a fair price and you wait. You become rich, not by frequent buying and selling, u rich by waiting your investment grow and compounded over time.

If you day trade and more on speculators, then yes, better u choose a less costly platform as each fees charges of each trade will eat ur profits or make ur lost worst off.

How I wish we can easy get some RMB access. RMB is also appreciating against the Ringgit.

Don't always look at US capital market. Open and make it easy local platform can invest on China and India market. So the local small fishes can go buy those stocks there. Should be global.

Look for cheap bargain there, buy and hold, you probably can get also good return 10 years down the road and appreciating currency there.

Portfolio should spread abit regional and not too concentrated.

DCA is the worst idea abused by the mutual fund and brokerage firm, platform provider industry. Putting each month consistently each month generate "fees" to the bookies of these industry. That's how they make money. Whether England or Brazil winning the world cup, it's the bookies that profits each bet.

As investor, your DCA only probably few times. If you see value in the biz, u buy the stock at certain price which if fair or cheap to you at that time. Even if the price of the stocks drop, and you still see value in it, you buy more via DCA. You don't DCA each month consistenly like zombie, don't think that's how super investor like Warren Buffet operates during investing.

Maybe not the right word. Invest with the amount you have after evaluation. Can be 5k, 10, 50K....while u look for a good deal. It's alright to sit on cash if there's not a good deal, nothing wrong with that.