Hi Marketwinner. Thanks very much for the tips. They have a good website which gives me all the info I would look for without having to probe further.

From my perspective, I think the next few years are going to be a roller coaster..Europe tumbling, war rumblings, Govt debts defaulting. There will be a banking crisis so I've decided to go for a well established, well-encrypted, award winning US based broker, as my focus at this stage is mainly to have US holdings.