Stock Trading with an Offshore Brokerage Account
With an IBC (International Business Corporation), trading
offshore can have many advantages. Your offshore brokerage
account can be under your IBC company name, which ensures
privacy while trading because your personal name is never
revealed. Offshore brokerage houses have been using this
technique for years to trade in complete privacy in a tax-free
setting.
Once you've established your IBC, you would have the choice of
opening a domestic brokerage account or an offshore brokerage
account. Both of these would be under your IBC name, and would
have access to International markets. However, an offshore
brokerage account would allow you greater privacy.
Offshore brokerage accounts offer far better privacy because the
brokerage accounts are located in offshore tax havens with very
high levels of confidentiality and tough asset protection laws.
In contrast, domestic brokerage accounts have no such
protection. The beneficial owner must be fully disclosed even if
an offshore company is used to hold the account. It is also
important to remember that the US is one of the easiest places
to be sued and have assets seized.
An offshore brokerage account will allow you to trade
internationally on most exchanges. You can buy U.S. stocks,
purchase bonds, mutual funds, currencies, treasury bonds, invest
in European markets, and bank CD's and commodities.
Also, many offshore brokerage houses include offshore Forex
online foreign exchange services. Most of them allow
state-of-the-art trading software, rapid and trade execution,
zero commissions, and 3 pip spreads with hedging capability.
So combine the benefit of stock trading with the advantage of an
offshore IBC/brokerage account, and start making real profits on
your trades.