Long term hold e mini 500 or SPY

[GregorySG9]

This thread has gotten overly complicated for a long-term investment. You said this is a foreign account with taxes that I’m not familiar with. In the end this is a tax question and nothing else. What would you get to keep more if your gain was from Futures or in the ETF with dividends. And if there’s a loss, how would that affect your savings

We can’t answer those questions. All the other stuff is not as material.

I agree. At the end, it's mostly a tax question.

@Jason11111111
I believe you got all the information you need. If you want more details, there's also a paper published by the CME (may be biased but still interesting): https://www.cmegroup.com/files/download/cme-group-futures-and-etf-paper-white-paper.pdf
Check especially "Scenario 4: International Investor"