Reliable broker that offers forex, stocks, and commodies?

Hi,
I would like to check with you guys if you know a reliable broker that offers forex, stocks, commodies?

if you want to be a professional trader, probably go with TradeStation, they seem to be more reliable and have a better terminal than most brokers. They also offer the securities you are looking for so give them a try:

http://www.tradestation.com/

Hi.

Well first you need to let us know which country you are resident in??? That may narrow your list of choices unfortunately.

TradeStation: no argument at all with jhehe i.e. fantastic award winning broker. Problem??? It depends on how much capital you have at your disposal. TradeStation is a US Broker and because of all of the new (maybe not so new anymore) regulations: 50:1 leverage is the maximum offered on FOREX (which I don't believe is a bad thing let me just tell you that) and, well, it gets WAY lower when it comes to trading futures, stocks, and commodities. What's more: the minimum capital requirements (bear in mind that there is a minimum capital requirement as well as a minimum overnight maintenance margin requirement) could be prohibitive. Also: you need to be WELL "versed" when it comes to things like minimum position sizes, minimum tick sizes and tick values, there's a lot of "due diligence" to be done here.

Deltastock SA (Deltastock AD) (http://www.deltastock.co.za/) offers FOREX, Gold, Silver, and CFDs on Shares (Stocks), Indices, Futures (including Commodities, and ETFs. I shall not lie to you here i.e. I am (now) the CEO of Deltastock SA hence my recommendation (so no "hiding behind the bushes" here). This being said: I have been a Deltastock client (trader and still do trade) since 2007 and I can assure you that from a TRADER'S point of view that you could not wish for better (I'm not going to "launch into my usual sales pitch" here i.e. my reviews and ratings as a TRADER, from years back, are ALL OVER the Internet as are one or two of my OWN "horror stories" with another particular "bucketshop" that I had the misfortune of dealing with when I started trading a few years prior to that).

But let me note a few things REGARDLESS of broker (which the thread starter may or may not know BUT that may be beneficial to others) (and of course these are personal opinions BUT based on trading experience AND, now, from being on "the broker side of things"):

The NUMBER ONE REASON why MOST traders fail is UNDER CAPITALIZATION. If a trader is under capitalized then they are, by definition, unable to manage risk. And if there is only ONE "golden rule" that is NEVER to be broken it is just this i.e. if you do not implement risk/money management on EACH AND EVERY SINGLE TRADE you WILL end up losing your account. It's not a question of IF but rather a question of WHEN (how soon). So please bear this in mind. That's why I pointed out (above) that you must be familiar with tick sizes and tick values when looking to trade Stocks and Commodities and Futures etc. You need to know these things because even with the broker MINIMUM capital requirements to open a live trading account (and depending on your trading system, style, and methodology): you may STILL not be in a position to implement risk/money management. In other words: JUST BECAUSE you are able to open a live trading account with the broker minimum DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD. I see accounts "slowly bleed away" on a daily basis MAINLY because little to no risk/money management is being implemented. And it "kills" me because there is NO reason for this to be happening. But people just will not LISTEN. My "take" here: "if you cannot PAY then you shouldn't PLAY". There's FAR too many (false???) advertisements around where the "promise of quick riches" is made. You know the type i.e. "I made $6 000 last month and I only invested (opened my live trading account) with $100"!!! I'm sure it happens. I've seen it happen. But I also know that on the very rare occasions that it does happen: that $6 000 is a "gonner" within a few DAYS normally (if not HOURS). The point I'm trying to make is that it's slow and steady and consistent REALISTIC gains that will make you such "riches" OVER TIME. And to be honest: the brokers are largely responsible for this "nonsense advertising" (but it's not limited to brokers of course).

Now I'm 100% sure that the above is WAY more than the thread starter wanted to know (or maybe not i.e. not sure). But I post the above additional information MAINLY because I honestly believe that trading Stocks, Commodities, Indices (recommended) is "the way to go". HOWEVER: there's a little bit more to trading these instruments than there is to trading FOREX. So you need to know all of these things before "dropping" you hard earned cash into a trading account.

Given that I trade almost exclusively CFDs on the Major Indices (and some Stocks and Commodities) and have been doing so for a good long while: I'm only too keen and happy to help out if asked. So any questions: feel free to ask (I'll be subscribed to this thread).

Regards,

Dale.

Dale/FisTrade, does Delta accept USA clients. Are there restrictions?.

Thank you so very much for your reply. I´m a little bit slow with my reply to you. I want to give an update that I opened an account at Admiralmarkets. They offer forex, index, stocks from all over the world. But they seem to have limited the stocks to the largest in each region. They don´t seem to have stocks that are very cheap for example.

I´m overall very happy with the broker. They have a CFD calculator for stocks and indexes. I´m overall happy.

The only thing I´m lookig for now is a broker with a greater amount of stocks in each region to trade. This would be beneficial as I sometimes want to buy smaller stocks (penny stocks). But overall I´m very happy. The service is good.

http://www.deltastock.com/ seems to be limited with only the larger stocks aswell.

I use interactive brokers. Only downside is they can be more expensive then Ameritrade when trading over 5000 shares at a time. Depending on your volume you can always negotiate better rates with brokers.

I use Trader's Way for all of the above but you should be able to get a list of brokers who offer multiple financial instruments, at broker review websites..

Then go with TradeStation, it is the most complete and comprehensive broker with ability to trade stocks, futures, forex, and options all within the same platform and from the same order box.