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Originally Posted by RichieRich
I forgot to mention I'd like to get into puts/calls/covered situations at some point too w.r.t. stocks. I don't think you can do those with ETFs? Until some of your notes above I had not given much thought to international.
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I'll defer to the more seasoned traders in the thread, but if you are focusing on ETFs and plan on buying monthly or semi-monthly, look for a platform that doesn't charge to buy ETFs, like Questrade (Disclaimer: I use Questrade for this reason). If you hate fees as much as I do, it's absolutely a no brainier.
IKBR seems to be better for buying stocks, and I'm looking into splitting my activity between the two platforms, just need to do a bit more research.
FWIW a friend showed me TD's platform and it has access to loads more information/news/research/reports than Questrade does.