PSG and iTrade

[Hawk]

A while back PSG announced that you can now directly trade offshore through them. Yesterday I got the notification from iTrade that you can now do the same through them and access 23 exchanges worldwide. Any idea if and when OST will do the same?

[#2]

if you want to trade offshore, then best open an offshore trading account with an international broker. PSG and iTrade (I think) will offer you trading facilities in rands. this you will need to study extremely carefully, because if they are marking to market (I think is the correct term?) every evening, and settling with you in Rands again, this will be an expensive process. if htey are enabling you to trade in foreign currency, with cash reserves offshore, then that might be different. Most likely though, is that they will have partnered with an international broker - in which case you will want to check your fees, as you will have broker charging margin on another brokers' fees.