Benefits and tools

More than 10 years of online trading experience has honed the quality of the services, resources and products that Standard Online Share Trading provides. We also know how to maintain highly competitive pricing.

As an investor, you will benefit from our high standards and demonstrated expertise. This sets our service apart and enables you to enjoy all the advanced features of our particular offerings.

There are several compelling reasons to choose South Africa’s biggest – and growing – online stock broker as your investment partner:

A diverse and constantly evolving product range
A well-developed and user-friendly platform
Extensive online and face-to-face client training - free to our clients
Access to our call centre, for ongoing assistance
Well-trained and knowledgeable call centre staff
Continuous reinvestment into upgrading our systems and products

Click on a topic below to learn more about what we offer.

Platform
Products
Education
Tools and resources

Platform

The Standard Online Share Trading platform provides a full online trading service with robust features and everything you could possibly need to proficiently transact a range of listed JSE Limited products.

View the core functionality that our platform offers below.

Useful and powerful functionality

A live online trading environment
Real-time profit and loss reports
Automatic stop loss
Online order entry and cancellation
Trade and price alerts via SMS and e-mail (or both)
Live streaming prices
Live portfolio values
Auto close out (if cash runs out)
Statements to view and download online, including:

Monthly statements
Contract notes
IT3(b) and IT3(c) reports

A full yearly profit and loss report (useful for capital gains purposes)

Learn more about the features available on the platform.

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our demo.

Products

Standard Online Share Trading has a diverse array of popular transactional products to enhance your trading and investment portfolio. We also regularly expand our product selection, so you are certain to find a trading or investment option to suit your needs.

Whatever your preference - trading ordinary shares or gearing up your investments with derivatives on selected stocks, currencies, and commodities - we deliver the goods.

Our product range will suit all your investment needs:

Transact on any:

Shares
Share instalments
Warrants

Equity warrants
Index warrants
Commodity warrants
Currency reference warrants

Futures

Single stock futures (SSFs)
Currency futures
ALSI futures

Contracts for difference (CFDs)

Education

Education is a value-added service that we offer exclusively to our Standard Online Share

Learn more about the stock market and getting started in shares.

Trading clients. We recommend that you equip yourself with a good understanding of the share environment to build your confidence before you start your trading career and risk real cash.

All our introductory level courses are FREE! They are thorough, highly informative and designed to assist you in making the best market investment decisions possible.

Click on an educational area below or visit our education centre for more information.

Standard Online Share Trading seminars and courses

Tools and resources

Investing online has never been easier with Standard Online Share Trading.

The following user-friendly tools and resources are available within our platform. These are at your disposal to guide your decisions and keep you in constant contact with both the latest market information and essential historical data.

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Standard Online Share Trading tools and resources