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Using lint rules to prevent bugs
Principal Software Engineer, Alex Curran, shares more about our process to prevent bugs as we build our mobile apps.
22/1/2021
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Alex Curran
Building Freetrade
Principal Software Engineer, Alex Curran, shares more about our process to prevent bugs as we build our mobile apps.
22/1/2021
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Alex Curran
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Principal Data Engineer Benen Cahill shares our process for data here at Freetrade.
13/1/2021
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Benen Cahill
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Principal Product Designer Caitlin Rich shares her top reads to help inspire good design and keep user experience front of mind.
14/1/2021
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Caitlin Rich
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Including some big name S&P 500 companies
21/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
Software Engineer Theo Gregory shares how we use serverless to speed up deployment.
17/12/2020
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Theodore Gregory
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Senior Product Manager, Jani Kiilunen, shares how we work with the Freetrade community to build the product
17/12/2020
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Jani Kiilunen
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Including SAP, Credit Suisse, Ryanair, Trivago
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
Brand new for Plus members
6/1/2021
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
Freetrade Head of Engineering, Invest, Tim Drew, shares how we scale our platform using Cloud Firestore
21/12/2020
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Timothy Drew
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Freetrade Software Engineering Manager Rokey Ge shares his virtual onboarding experience.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
A big improvement to Free Share is here.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
See how Freetrade compares to other brokers.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Senior Software Engineer Jimmy Thompson takes you through the three layers of the Freetrade app
10/12/2020
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Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
A new limit of £25,000 for US stocks.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
Including fixed income, investment-grade and government bonds.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Freetrade VP Product Duncan Leslie on vision, strategy and measuring success.
10/12/2020
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Duncan Leslie
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Market cap, dividend yield, and P/E ratio are here.
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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Compare your performance against a global benchmark
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
10/12/2020
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Viktor Nebehaj
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Everything we plan to add to your app before the holidays.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Freetrade engineer Simon Poole talks about overcoming some serverless infrastructure challenges.
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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From Papa John's to Zambian cattle farmers, we've added a wide array of new stocks to the Freetrade universe
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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Freetrade Talent Sourcer, Isabelle Atunrase, shares why we should all celebrate Black History Month, and some of the ways we’re getting involved here at Freetrade.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Our biggest addition of ETFs yet.
10/12/2020
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Alex Campbell
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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.
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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More of what you want.
10/12/2020
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Alex Campbell
Building Freetrade
Freetrade Senior Software Engineer Luke Smith talks about the nuts and bolts of our brokerage platform
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
Introducing your expanded stock universe.
10/12/2020
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Alex Campbell
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More ways to measure your portfolio performance
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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It’s now even easier to add money to your Freetrade account
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Freetrade Senior Product Manager Glenn Drawbridge shares his story.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Find out what's inside, and request your invite.
10/12/2020
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Duncan Leslie
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Over 100 new stocks, including Kodak, La-Z-Boy, Tiffany & Co, and Crocs.
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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Amy joins Freetrade as our first Head of People.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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100 stocks inc. Avis, Tripadvisor, Goodyear, AMC Entertainment, Denny’s
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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The first of many additions to order types.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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75 new stocks including Ericsson, Yelp, Gfinity, Youdao
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Country-specific ETFs, and stocks from Wendy’s to Columbia
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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100 brand new stocks and ETFs are here
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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This week's 100 new stocks and ETFs might be the best batch yet.
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Ferrari, Honda, Canadian Railway, United Airlines, Canadian banks, ETFs, and more
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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You can now own a piece of Ed Sheeran
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Cannabis companies have arrived
10/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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The former entrepreneur will be Freetrade’s non-executive director
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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Find out more about how Free Share works
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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250 new US stocks have landed
10/12/2020
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Viktor Nebehaj
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Meet the person responsible for making Freetrade look cool
10/12/2020
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David Kimberley
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You can now invest in a slice of US companies
In our mission to get everyone investing, commission-free investing was only the start.
A number of US stocks cost upward of a thousand dollars for a single share, and many cost hundreds. A lot of people can’t afford that and miss out on investing in companies due to the share price being outside their budget.
Even if the share price is lower than that, sometimes you want to start small and build up your stock ownership in steps, or diversify your portfolio with smaller amounts of money.
That’s what we are solving with this latest upgrade.
Investing in fractional shares on Freetrade is intuitive. Rather than choosing a number of shares to buy, you are able to specify the cash amount to invest. Freetrade will then get you as many shares as possible for the amount you entered, at the best available price.
This makes it easier to manage as part of a savings strategy and can enable features such as automated reinvestment of dividends in the future.
We’ve been beta testing the feature, including help from a great number of our community members, and are ready to roll it out to every Freetrade customer over the next few days.
Are fractional shares on Freetrade real shares?
Yes. With Freetrade, our customers own real shares, whole or fractional, which are held as client assets in accordance with FCA rules.
Can I specify my order in whole shares?
Since the beginning, we’ve built the user interface for buying shares with the intent to shift the focus from the number of shares to investment amount, which we believe is more meaningful and compatible with building a diversified portfolio. This rollout hasn’t changed that flow, the change is that you’ll end up with the maximum possible number of shares for your investment amount, including fractions.
Independent of building fractional share investing, we are also testing many improvements to the process of placing a trade, adding flexibility for more advanced order types such as limits and stops. While we always intend to deliver the simplest order flow possible, as part of such advanced orders we may include a version of whole-share purchasing in the future.
Why is there a £2 minimum?
The minimum trade size of £2 is based on the smallest value we are able to convert to US dollars with our currency exchange partner. For simplicity and to provide a consistent experience, we have set the minimum to be £2 across any trades placed.
Will I get fractional dividends?
Yes. Dividend payments will be split based on the fraction of the stock owned, then rounded to the nearest penny.
What if I want to transfer my shares out of Freetrade?
Currently, you have to liquidate your portfolio and transfer the cash if you decide to move out of Freetrade. We’ll be working to make this process better, and we’ll build it in a way that takes fractional shares into account.
Which stocks does the fractional upgrade support?
US-listed stocks only — for now.
Freetrade does not provide investment advice and individual investors should make their own decisions or seek independent advice. Your capital is at risk when you invest. The value of investments can go up as well as down and you may receive back less than your original investment.
Freetrade is a trading name of Freetrade Limited, which is a member firm of the London Stock Exchange and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England and Wales (no. 09797821).