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David Kimberley

David is Freetrade's Staff Writer and author of the Weekend Read. To help Freetraders understand more about the world of financial markets, David is also working on our Financial Dictionary. David is working towards his IMC (Investment Management Certificate).

Dealing with (order) rejection

Rejected orders, rare but irritating parts of using a brokerage platform. Read on to see some of the underlying causes causing this, and how Freetrade is working to reduce them.

7/4/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Fractional shares for all

A major step on fractional shares.

7/4/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

600 brand new stocks, including David Beckham's Esports team

Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Stock fundamentals are now on your app

Market cap, dividend yield, and P/E ratio are here.

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Introducing the time-weighted rate of return

Compare your performance against a global benchmark

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Optimising cold-starts with Google Cloud Functions

Freetrade engineer Simon Poole talks about overcoming some serverless infrastructure challenges.

9/4/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Over 450 brand new stocks

From Papa John's to Zambian cattle farmers, we've added a wide array of new stocks to the Freetrade universe

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

User Story Mapping - How we keep a focus on value

Freetrade Senior Product Managers Anant Sangar and Glenn Drawbridge have been busy working on limit orders and SIPPs. Here, they chat through how use User Story Mapping.

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Event sourcing on Freetrade

Freetrade Senior Software Engineer Luke Smith talks about the nuts and bolts of our brokerage platform

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Brand new stocks: fashion brands, fast food, biotech innovators, and another SPAC

Over 100 new stocks, including Kodak, La-Z-Boy, Tiffany & Co, and Crocs.

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Brand new stocks: fashion brands, gold miners, and SPACs

100 stocks inc. Avis, Tripadvisor, Goodyear, AMC Entertainment, Denny’s

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Perry Blacher, serial entrepreneur turned VC, is joining Freetrade’s board

The former entrepreneur will be Freetrade’s non-executive director

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Meet the team: Renata Labude, Senior Growth Manager

Find out more about how Free Share works

9/4/2021

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David Kimberley

Trends

What are Freetraders buying?

As the lockdown eases, investments are changing

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Building Freetrade

Meet the team: Caitlin Rich, Principal Product Designer

Meet the person responsible for making Freetrade look cool

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Why orders are rejected in volatile markets

We explain why orders get rejected during volatile market activity and why wild swings in pricing make it harder for market makers to do their job.

30/3/2021

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David Kimberley

Trends

Tesla, Zoom and Gold — Q1 2020 trends

What Freetraders bought at the start of this year

9/4/2021

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David Kimberley

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