I recently signed up with IG and cancelled, then I signed up with FPmarkets and cancelled them. Both are well regarded by successful traders in Australia that I have talked to but just wasn't going to work for me.
FPMarkets equities looks good on the advertising site but if you read the fine print (as I recall) it was $10 per trade + some percentage + plus you had to pay for ASX data which was $20 per month (rebate if you spent over $80 p/m).
As I might only do about 10 trades a month, those numbers for me barely made it worth it to get into the shady world of CFDs.
Long story short I still think it's pretty hard to beat Commsec in my opinion - but I think I am in the minority in saying that.
