CommSec Review and Information 2024

CommSec is Australia's leading online broker. With 20 years of industry leading service and experience, offering Australia's best online and mobile trading solutions CommSec is the first choice when considering retail online trading partners. See the value in moving to CommSec and discover why more Australians trade online with CommSec. Get access to cutting-edge research, such as Goldman Sachs stock recommendations and Morningstar premium ratings. Monitor the latest market movements with advanced tools like CommSecIRESS. Enjoy flexibility with your trading with features like trading limits, and take advantage of our great range of products to help develop your trading strategies and diversify your portfolio.

• Help me understand the share market. Understanding how it all works is the first step to investing in shares.
• Choose an online share broker. See why CommSec is the first choice in online brokers.
• Why make the switch to CommSec. See the value in moving to CommSec.
• CommSec One. The active trader program that gives personalised support, priority access and exclusive offers.

Powerful Trading Tools

Make informed investment decisions with comprehensive market research, free live pricing and powerful trading tools including alerts2, conditional orders, stock screeners and comparison charts.

• Advanced Charting. Use CommSec’s sophisticated charting tools to compare stocks and monitor their performance.
• Create personalised watchlists. View live pricing, research and market data points for any stocks you're interested in by setting up custom watchlists.
• CommSecIRESS Viewpoint. Use CommSecIRESS Viewpoint for real-time data streaming via any web browser. It’s highly customisable, with an intuitive interface that lets you create your desktop to fit your trading style and features an extensive suite of trading tools. Its cutting edge range of features include fast and easy order placement, historical data, market map, alerts2 and watchlists. You can use CommSecIRESS Viewpoint for free when you place 8+ trades per calendar month or spend $220+ in brokerage3 or are a CommSec One client4, saving you up to $82.50 per month. Click here to find out more about CommSec One.
• Trade on the go. With the CommSec App, you can stay on top of the market and trade, whenever you like, wherever you are.

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Research Tools

Make the most of your trading opportunities with our cutting edge research platform. Free to CommSec customers, it features an expanded range of research tools and simply displayed information within an easy-to-navigate site.

It's all designed to help you get to what you need faster - so you can make timely, better-informed investment decisions.

• Enhanced research tools. Find what you're looking for with features like a stock screener and clever comparison charts.
• Insights you can trust. Get clear direction from the experts, with data, tips and research — in report format or straight talking commentary — from some of the most respected financial sources.
• Real time updates. Make the most of every opportunity with a pre-market International review, an in-trade market update and a post-market wrap.
• Proactive ideas. Always be open to new ideas, whatever your experience. Our Trading Ideas page gives you up to eight stock recommendations daily.
• Clear and accessible information. Bringing clarity to the complex. With simple visual displays  — including heat maps, graphs and comparison charts and Smart Text analysis — in plain English.
• Economic Calendar tool. With upcoming economic events at your fingertips, you can stay on-top of information that could impact the markets.

More of what you need

• Fast Start. Start trading today, with our quick, paperless sign-up.
• Find what you need. Do what you need to faster, with our easy-to-navigate online platform.
• Keep your strategy on track. Use Conditional Orders to make sure your trades are placed, even when you aren’t monitoring the market. And set up alerts to stay informed, wherever you happen to be.
• Get free live pricing. Access real-time share and market prices, with no delay in quotes, regardless of how much you trade.
• Settle funds into any cash account. Settle trades with the transactional bank account of your choice, or open a Commonwealth Direct Investment Account (CDIA)5 with CommSec to save at least $10 on every trade1.
• Get expert stock recommendations. Gain valuable market insights with weekly stock recommendations from our industry experts.
• Place orders with no cash deposit. Trade up to $5,000 worth of stock without an initial cash deposit6.
• Access exclusive Content. Get live commentary plus regular market and economic news from CommSec and leading Australian companies.

Expand your horizons

International Shares. CommSec offers you access to global share markets, including the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. While the Australian share market offers some excellent investment opportunities, it makes up less than 2% of the world’s total by market capitalisation. So if you’re only investing in Australian shares, there’s still a whole world of investment potential you could be tapping into.

• Value for your money. Value means more than just CommSec’s low brokerage rates (from $10.001 per trade). It’s free to join and there are no ongoing fees. Value also means a great range of free research and trading tools, and an ongoing commitment to making your trading experience the best it can be.
• Join today. It’s free to join CommSec and you can be trading in as little as 5 minutes.

To complete the switch, complete a CHESS Sponsorship & Broker to Broker Request Form and return it to us for processing. Your application will usually be processed within 48 to 72 hours.