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What is Sanlam iTrade?
Sanlam iTrade is an online trading platform so advanced in its design and user compatibility, so liberating in its spread of options, that it offers everything you need and more to make successful investment decisions, pro-actively manage your portfolio and trade on the JSE at competitive prices.
What makes Sanlam iTrade different from other trading websites?
Sanlam iTrade is the only website in South Africa with MAPS, a unique, multidimensional tool that enables users to view and understand vast amounts of data instantly. MAPS is like a satellite navigational system for shares. It allows you to view multiple shares at a glance, e.g. the major JSE indices, your own portfolio and watch lists.
Price movements are reflected in colour, shades of green for up and shades of red for down. Without having to scroll through a whole table of share price movements, investors can see the big movements in the market at a glance. Detailed price information and direct links to fundamental data and graphs for every share are also just a click away.
What can Sanlam iTrade offer you?
If knowledge is power, Sanlam iTrade empowers you with a universe of market information at your fingertips, including:
Why trade online?
More and more people, from young Internet-savvy 30-year olds to the baby boomer generation are discovering the benefits of investing directly on the JSE:
Is there anywhere you can learn to trade online?
Online education and interactive training courses are available to empower investors to manage their own investments successfully. A Virtual Trade Simulator is available where you can learn to trade with a fictitious R1 million share portfolio.
Various models demonstrate how to use the website to trade as well as interpret macro-economic releases and share data to ensure technical analysis works for you. There are also modules to explain warrants and futures.
How are you linked to the JSE?
Sanlam iTrade is your license to trade on the JSE as if you were right there on the trading floor. Real-time live prices are provided with market depth and the five best bid and offer prices plus volumes. Buying and selling orders are processed through the JSE in seconds. Immediate trade confirmations are sent via e-mail and SMS. You can also protect your portfolio from sharp price movements by placing stop-loss orders, including trailing stop-loss orders based on a percentage retracement from the next top or bottom.
Will Sanlam iTrade give you fundamental share data and research?
Absolutely. Sanlam iTrade is a powerful research tool providing information on the SA economy, the impact of the international economy, JSE-listed companies as well as technical analysis on markets and shares. For every share, you get more than 10 years of financial statements and a news archive. Apart from statutory company information and dividend info, Sanlam iTrade makes performance and trading statistics available.
Model portfolios for different risk categories are continuously managed and updated.There are also consensus broker forecasts on more than 100 companies, giving you the buy/hold/sell views of top brokers as well as three-year earnings forecasts.
Is there space for your own technical analysis and charts?
Sanlam iTrade provides a comprehensive charting facility so you can undertake your own technical analysis on all JSE shares and indices, currencies, commodities and international indices. This can be done on bar, line or candlestick charts. Statistical analysis includes MACD, RSI, DMI (ADX), Stochastics, Fibonacci Retrace, Bollinger Bands and many more.
What about fees?
A monthly fee of just R50 plus VAT gives you access to the most innovative offering of features and facilities on the Internet. Monthly fees are waived if you pay more than R300 broking fees in a month. Broking fees start at R75 basic charge plus 0.5% broking fee (excluding statutory levies and taxes). The fee scale drops to 0.4% for trades above R500,000 and to 0.35% above R1m. For all our costs click on Our Costs
Are you getting the big picture?
Never before has such an array of online trading and portfolio management tools been assembled together in one package. Never have the tools on offer been so sharp. Never before have you been given the opportunity to see so much in one glance. Register today to become a Sanlam iTrade client.