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I have subscribed to your channel. Do you know of any services that allow non US residents to join? I am in New Zealand.

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There's https://hellostake.com/ for NZ and AU. They don't have an API yet but would like to in the future - see comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceNZ/comments/fnbmlx/x...

As mentioned, Sharesies plan to allow US market access: https://app.sharesies.nz/us-equities-register They do seem to have a private API at least: https://app.sharesies.nz/api/fund/list

https://www.revolut.com/en-NZ have plans to expand to NZ, I don't know much about their services though.

I also just found https://hatchinvest.nz/ - has US market access, I don't know about an API

Thank you

NZ doesnt have much going for it in terms of access to international equities. If you have over $10k USD, you can get an interactive brokers account, their API is a bit rubbish and commissions are normally around $6.00 USD flat. Otherwise Direct Broking via Jardens, commissions are c. $30 NZD per trade. Sharesies are apparently launching international equities later in the year, but they dont offer API access.

Thanks for the response. I was hoping for API access. It is a pity that companies don't expand here when they open an AU branch. That said, I don't blame them as our regulators are very inflexible, I used to love ipredict until it was shutdown.

Yeah, simply put New Zealand is far too small of an addressable market to really warrant much attention.

~17 USD/trade? Jesus christ that's high..

The joys of living in a small isolated country.

Sorry for the delayed reply, I wanted to get confirmation from our brokerage team before posting.

Tradier Brokerage (https://brokerage.tradier.com) can open individual accounts for New Zealand residents and API access comes standard with every account (including market data). You can place orders for US-based equities and options and we offer competitive pricing models for all traders.

If you have any questions, you can email service@tradierbrokerage.com or call 980-272-3880.

Full disclosure, I work at Tradier.

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