I was expecting the account opening to be a cakewalk. But it turned out to be more of a marathon than a sprint. To my surprise, the entire process took longer than I’d experienced with other brokers. Processing documents, transferring funds, everything seemed like a never-ending process. A couple of weeks rolled by, and there was a point I nearly gave up. But, something told me to hang in there - call it a hunch or trader's intuition, I decided to stick on.