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opening a broker account in thailand for worldwide shares

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43 minutes ago, stubuzz said:

I don't think it works for foreigners.

I haven’t gone all the way through with an Investment but it seems to work except for Government Bonds.

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  • Caldera
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    For "worldwide shares", I wouldn't open a brokerage account in Thailand, but an Interactive Brokers one.

  • Gaccha
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    I have runs the numbers on this. And if your plan is to use the money in Thailand while you are resident in Thailand then it definitely pays off for you to use Thailand Depository Receipts. This appli

  • SamSpade
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    Agreed and simple to open an account from Thailand... https://www.interactivebrokers.com/

On 6/7/2026 at 8:43 PM, stubuzz said:

I don't think it works for foreigners.

If it doesn't work, why is it there? I might try it, just to see.

3 hours ago, jas007 said:

If it doesn't work, why is it there? I might try it, just to see.

So, how did you get on?

12 hours ago, stubuzz said:

So, how did you get on?

How did I get the app on my phone the way it is? Some lady at the bank helped me install it. When I first downloaded the app it was all in Thai and I couldn't figure it out, so I went into the bank and asked if they could change the language into English. I didn't ask for anything specific, I just wanted it to work so I could make QR payments. This was an account that I opened up 15 years ago, if that makes any difference. Even though I wasn't in Thailand during all that time, I always kept some money in the account to keep it open.

Do the thai banks/brookers(settrade,webull,kasikorn etc) offer international markets in thb?

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On 5/22/2026 at 11:17 AM, JackGats said:

Bualuang is handy if you have a Bangkok Bank bank account, and I think they enable the trading in foreign stock. I stick to Thai stocks with my Thai broker's account though. It's not that trading fees are not attractive, it's more because I don't want to have too big an investment here in case something goes wrong.

can that bkk app bualuang enable me to buy foreign shares? as a farang here?

16 hours ago, DurianManThailand said:

can that bkk app bualuang enable me to buy foreign shares? as a farang here?

Definitely. I think that's why they renamed their TradeMaster app "Global TradeMaster".

On 6/13/2026 at 10:02 AM, John_s said:

Do the thai banks/brookers(settrade,webull,kasikorn etc) offer international markets in thb?

One caution ... based on my reading but not based on any Thai brokerage experience.

If you buy Thai Depositary Receipt (DR) of say a US stock via a Thai brokerage, any profit made on such for a Thai tax resident is not nominally taxable in Thailand, since the DR is listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET).

However I believe (and others can PLEASE correct me if i am wrong) if one who is a Thai tax resident, through a Thai brokerage, is able to trade directly on foreign equities in a foreign stock exchange (ie not via a DR on SET), then those profits if remitted into Thailand after 31-Dec-2023 would potentially be taxable in Thailand (possibly dependent on DTA of the country (of the stock exchange company) with Thailand.

Hence to trade foreign equities using a Thai brokerage, the way to do that may best be visa Thai Depositary Receipt (DR) of the foreign company stock/equity.

However not all foreign companies thou have an equivalent Thai DR. Likely a limited select number of DRs for USA based companies has the largest selection.

Again - I may have this wrong - its based on my reading (and hopefully others correct me). In my case, using my Canadian citizenship status, I trade with a Canadian brokerage, and I rely on the Canada-Thai DTA and my LTR-WP visa status to legally manage my taxation exposure. I believe depending on one's nationality and the location of one's brokerage, there are other ways to also legally manage one's tax exposure - but I have not researched such.

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