Although this is mainly a positive post about my experience on Tiger platform, it is not a sponsored post. It is written independently from Tiger Brokers based on my personal experience/situation. I am happy to do this as a grateful customer who have benefited from the freebies offered by Tiger. Not being sponsored also means I am free to talk about negative aspects of Tiger platform.

I am an existing customer of DBS Treasures (for Singapore stocks) and Interactive Brokers(everything else). Recently, I applied to be a customer of Tiger Brokers. So, why apply for a new account? It is because Tiger Brokers can offer things that my existing brokers cannot. 
Top reason : Free, quality market data  

Tiger Broker provides free, real-time bid-ask price data for U.S, Singapore, China stock markets. For Hong Kong stocks, only the last-done real-time price is provided. Tiger, being...