Heartland Boy has received a few enquiries from readers on the brokerage that he uses to purchase and sell his shares in Singapore. For the uninitiated, a brokerage firm allows you to buy and sell shares on the stock market. For providing this service, brokerage firms charges a commission fee for each transaction that the customer makes. To improve your returns from the stock market, aside from the obvious actual performance of your stocks, it is just as important to pay attention to your transaction expenses.
When Heartland Boy first started investing, he was using established brokerage platforms such as DBS Vickers and POEMS. However, this all changed when the topic of investment came up during one of those dates that Heartland Boy and Heartland Girl had. Heartland Girl shared that she was using the Standard Chartered Online Equities Trading Account and how its commission fees was the lowest. Since ......