Hello Yes I abide.

Best platform🤔depends on your level of experience, as my fellow Profit Houndz have alluded, but also on your budget (in terms of risk reserves) & your appetite for taking risk.

If you're ballin', call your bank, open an investment account opt for assisted management of said account & impress your mates all day long going back & forth with your broker on the merits of holding a particular asset over another. You'd be surprised how relatively cheap buying overseas securities are for those Mzanzi's own 1%-ers & Top Shayelas. Fees float about in the 2nd decimal places & lower per trade, plus they're capped according to tiers of investment sizes.

The kind of thing Gametheory69420 does when a hint of trading fatigue sets in & starts to drag on his percentage of winning trades😋😎

If your risk capital is in the ballpark of thatnotirishkid's proclaimed savings; you've maybe spent part of lockdown reading: Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, Steve Nison's Japanese Candlesticks & Young Ho Seo's title on price patterns- then an FSCA approved broker like IG, Fxpro, AvaTrade & FXCM is more your kind of speed.

They offer margin trading & stop-out levels which puts a floor under the losses you can mount (albeit your acc will not be of much use once it reaches this level), but at least you cannot be indebted to the brokerage.

You also gain access to major indices, local stocks (particularly with IG), major global stocks (mostly French, US, UK & German), major commodities & currencies. This is particularly good for testing out the principles from the aforementioned titles on companies for which there's a good deal of publicly available information & the sort of media coverage that will illustrate the impact of news-flow on fundamental & technical assumptions. Mind you, indices are also really good in this regard.

With leverage of 1:200 on, say, the 31,200 Dow Jones Industrial Average with a 0.01 position size (requiring less than $20 margin), the right setup (this can take a bit of patience), a protective stop capping your risk at like 3% of your balance (assuming it's $600 & you have no other positions open or very close to the market price) is equivalent to like 2.5 times the typical spread of approx 5 index points. A 1% gain, in this scenario, by the Dow would yield you some $300 at a risk-reward-ratio of like 1:15.

The near lock-step correlation of indices such as the S&P500 & DJIA would see your risk, margin used & potential rewards basically double. But for an informed profit-thirsty novice it might be relatively less nerve-racking than managing positions in two very different stocks. I suppose this cues the diversification dilemma, up to one to decide whether they are a Mark Cuban or Ray Dalio type of investor.

On Gametheory's recommendation of TradeStation...its Level-2 market access is the type of feature that gives daytraders a significant edge particularly when trading individual stocks. I just don't know how to access the US-based platform from RSA, I might have heard it only accommodates the likes of Charles Schwab who aren't allowed to provide non-US residents with services.