I opened directly with the main site www.alliancetrader.com couple months back. I notice that there are quite a few more people here who are using Alliance. I am still with them and I am very pleased with their support desk. 
Quote from Weasel:
They are registered as a Jamaican securities firm and not with the NASD or any North American Exchange. Their website says it's not geared to clients from the U.S. I doubt very much that you'd have any recourse if they closed up and kept everyone's money. Beware.
Quote from BCE:
Good observation. I was wondering about this. At the bottom of the homepage it says, "Alliance Investment Management, LTD is not targeted or intended for US persons." Perhaps they say that to keep the SEC from trying to somehow go after them, maybe through the Jamaican authorities.
Quote from TickRader:
I opened directly with the main site www.alliancetrader.com couple months back. I notice that there are quite a few more people here who are using Alliance. I am still with them and I am very pleased with their support desk.![]()
Quote from Nana Trader:
Sure it's very nice and clean beach, but it's expensive as a hell
Price for around $1000/weekly for a 1bedroom?
I can find you better beaches with much more life to it for
$500/monthly in many Southeast Asian resorts.
http://www.silver-sands.com/choose_1bdrm_price.html
Quote from reid5525:
Asia. Too far from home base, and I can't read in that language. From Jamaica I'm 1 1/2 hours to Miami by air. Silver Sands does'nt come cheap. But there are cheaper places:
http://www.jamaicanegril.com/
Click on rates and divide the Ja currency by 60 to get US$.