I disagree. There’s people that would also like to take advance of the current market but are priced out due to cost of american stocks. Two sides to every coin
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Agree with Johnny. I want to take positions on amazon apple and tesla but don’t have the funds at the moment to plough into full shares and overweight the rest of my portfolio so I’d prefer fractionals.
Freetrade can’t please everyone all of the time and I do get the frustrations at the timescales quoted. “a few weeks” is obviously frustrating to most if it’s used and then used again a month or so later to describe the same time frame. I’d much prefer a “by the end of q2” and then have that time frame smashed if everything falls in to place. Even that though you can’t please everyone if something happens and even that time frame is missed.
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shouldn’t this be a no-op at this point? as the list is presumably ready already.
You might as well stop giving updates and pointless teases now. It just makes it look like you think your customers are stupid. Just release stuff when it’s ready rather than meaningless stuff to try to build hype. Has a single public commitment of a few weeks ever been met?
Every app update since January has said things are coming soon but the only new feature in months has been something that’s playing catch up with competitors.
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There are technical reasons why this sequence is the most efficient. As we mentioned before, we are already producing the content necessary for the first 250 and we’ll then add subsequently.
I can’t think of a commitment of a few weeks that has not. I don’t know where this comes from.
Ever since we designated the 18th September 2018 for rolling out, we were giving timelines as much as it was possible. A lot of the timelines we give are dimensional - there is a difference between something being a few weeks out vs a feature that will only ship at the end of this year. As engineers know, there are a lot of moving parts in software development, hence the dimensional time frames. The good news is, we fully control our technology platform now, which resulted in relatively fewer features rolled out in the short term, but it’s already paying dividends (no pun intended) and will pay more.
Now that Invest by Freetrade is fully rolled out, we’ll do a roadmap update.
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Here the post talks about ‘stocks and ETFs’ which will be added in the next few weeks. Do we have a full list of the ETFs in the update yet?
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Thanks for that, appreciate the clarification.
With regards to timelines, I value your honesty and openness around the roadmap, and I’d rather have an open roadmap that may show some slippage, then you hiding behind closed doors. Transparency is key and you seem to believe so as well.
Looking forward to fractionals and additional stocks. I know you can’t commit, but it’d be appreciated if you could keep us informed in the coming weeks - with corona and ISA season everyone is making judgement calls where they wish to put their money, and fractionals and a broader stock universe are deciding factors for many of us.
On and upwards!
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The roadmap is very much still there, and it’ll get a revamp, as @Viktor mentions.
Onwards and upwards indeed!
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Really? I guess you really do think we’re stupid then.
For example, 31 January you posted that the upgrade the invest would be done in a couple of weeks. On the 8 Feb Sam posted the upgrade would be done “next week”.
The upgrade was announced finished on 28 February.
Version 2.7.9 changelog said fractionals will “arrive in the next few weeks” on 29 January. Version 2.8.5 on 10 March and things are still “just around the corner”.
On 11 February in your blog you wrote instant trades would be available “in the next couple of weeks”. They were available on 4 March.
What is your definition of a few weeks? Or a couple?
Yes, deadlines get missed in software engineering. And if you can’t meet them then that’s exactly why you shouldn’t be misleading customers.
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No that quote came from a post Sam made on 8th February. However, it was in reference to the upgrade onto Invest but the point is still valid.
post 191.
When the upgrade happens, which it has now finally for all of us, the post seem to imply that the four features would be rolled out quickly as per Sam’s post.
True, but 90% of the market isn’t even available to us yet
Sneak peek at the most-requested 100 US stocks which will be in the 250 batch:
| 1 | Virgin Galactic |
| 2 | Realty Income |
| 3 | Costco |
| 4 | NIO |
| 5 | Amarin |
| 6 | Waste Management |
| 7 | Roku |
| 8 | Altria |
| 9 | Sonos |
| 10 | Corning |
| 11 | Docusign |
| 12 | Skyworks |
| 13 | Trade Desk |
| 14 | Splunk |
| 15 | Brookfield |
| 16 | Southern Copper |
| 17 | Santander |
| 18 | Eventbrite |
| 19 | Iron Mountain |
| 20 | Jumia |
| 21 | ServiceNow |
| 22 | CrowdStrike |
| 23 | Zynga |
| 24 | Target |
| 25 | Tapestry |
| 26 | Hasbro |
| 27 | Philip Morris |
| 28 | Albemarle |
| 29 | Broadcom |
| 30 | Biogen |
| 31 | TSMC |
| 32 | Farfetch |
| 33 | Accenture |
| 34 | MercadoLibre |
| 35 | Invesco |
| 36 | Wynn Resorts |
| 37 | Luckin Coffee |
| 38 | Harley-Davidson |
| 39 | Marvell Technology |
| 40 | SolarEdge |
| 41 | Liberty Media |
| 42 | NextEra |
| 43 | Zscaler |
| 44 | Peloton |
| 45 | Chipotle |
| 46 | Stitch Fix |
| 47 | Stratasys |
| 48 | MoneyGram |
| 49 | Alteryx |
| 50 | iQiyi |
| 51 | MongoDB |
| 52 | SMFG |
| 53 | Workday |
| 54 | Cardinal Health |
| 55 | Hilton Worldwide |
| 56 | Monster |
| 57 | Anaplan |
| 58 | Constellation |
| 59 | Western Digital |
| 60 | Motorola Solutions |
| 61 | Frequency Thera. |
| 62 | Equinix |
| 63 | Xilinx |
| 64 | AGNC |
| 65 | Cloudera |
| 66 | Cirrus Logic |
| 67 | CVS Health |
| 68 | Restaurant Brands |
| 69 | Moody’s |
| 70 | Markel |
| 71 | Morgan Stanley |
| 72 | Shake Shack |
| 73 | Church & Dwight |
| 74 | Illumina |
| 75 | Maxar Technologies |
| 76 | Live Nation |
| 77 | ScottsMiracle-Gro |
| 78 | Tyson Foods |
| 79 | Upwork |
| 80 | United Technologies |
| 81 | Zendesk |
| 82 | Bank OZK |
| 83 | SmileDirectClub |
| 84 | Align Technology |
| 85 | BNY Mellon |
| 86 | Cummins |
| 87 | Danaher |
| 88 | Equifax |
| 89 | Foot Locker |
| 90 | Fastly |
| 91 | General Mills |
| 92 | GameStop |
| 93 | Infosys |
| 94 | Intuitive Surgical |
| 95 | Invitae |
| 96 | Occidental |
| 97 | Phillips 66 |
| 98 | State Street |
| 99 | Terraform Power |
| 100 | Tencent Music |
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Yes! I can’t wait!
Is this one still going to happen? 
They have suspended trading since the 7th and currently being raided by the regulatory body in China!
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Are you adding them in a batch? And when will they be added?
They are being added after fractionals are fully rolled out so end of May or start of June at the earliest 
NIO!!! I’m excited now 
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Surely AMAT made the cut?
I second that. I assume this won’t be added given that they 're essentially done? Defrauded billions.
@Freetrade_Team
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