Quote Originally Posted by blu3 View Post
I guess it would make sense but I'm not planning to trade in the US anytime soon, and that is because of the NZD/USD rate not looking so good at the moment. I was mostly thinking of using it on the ASX for now due to the stop-loss option and the lower commission rates but then I would need to do more researches and comparison between brokers. As well as receiving feedbacks from the whole transfer process, for which I'd rather not play the role of the guinea pig
Ah, OK, I have only ever heard IB mentioned in a US context.

Shame abut the guinea pig though. It's possible that I might want to do a spot of that in the future, (although for reasons of concentration, rather than diversification) and it would be nice to have had that guinea pig.

Oh well, c'est la vie. . .