Best Share Trading Platforms – Forbes Advisor Australia - Forbes
With so many share trading platforms available to investors, it's hard to know what you should look for as you compare them all. The above list helps take guesswork out of it for you, with the following factors being highly regarded as important considerations: Minimum Investment Before signing up to a share trading platform, ensure that you can afford–and are happy to–pay the minimum investment. Often this is $500, but it can increase to over $1,000 or decrease significantly to $0 for smaller more niche platforms. Sometimes this minimum investment is only for the first initial trade, while other times, there's a minimum for every trade you make via the platform. Some platforms may have introductory offers available to new customers that waive these minimum initial investments, or a certain amount of free trades depending on how their minimum investment conditions are set up. Fees There are numerous fees associated with share trading, regardless of how you choose to...