Every once in a while, we will receive emails from our readers often asking questions around the same theme, and we thought it will be good to address them here in an article for easier future reference.

The most common question asked is – how do we purchase US stocks and how do we track our portfolios. So here are the apps and websites that we use to manage our personal finances.

Stock Purchase

For Singapore stock, the platform that we use to purchase stocks is still DBS Vickers.

Although we shared our negative experiences with regards to DBS Vickers where we had a ridiculous sell limit, we are still using them as we have yet to sign up with another broker.

Purchasing a stock via DBS Vickers will incur a cost of S$25 + 0.0325% clearing fee + 0.0075% SGX trading fee.

We previously did an article on the ideal stock amount to buy for the brokerage fees to make sense, which guides our stock purchase amount.

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