If you have GIA accounts in several providers the allowance is divided by the sum of the gains obtained in the different accounts. It also includes realised gains in other assets and not only stocks.
Capital gains realised within the ISA are exempt from tax, ie thereās no allowance, we can make as much as we can, either by luck or skill, though I believe we should not rely much on luck nor convince ourselves our results come from our own skill alone
Only have a GIA account with FT that is activeā¦
At what point is it beneficial to pay the Ā£3 a month for the ISA? if you only have a few hundred pounds in the account it seem a bit expensive.
I have an ISA & a GIAā¦ I believe that Capital Gains Tax is only applicable when you āSellā (Close deal(s)) making a gain of over 12.3k ā¦The allowance. Any losses you have made from closing other deals can be offset against it.
If your lucky enough to be up more than the allowance then you could always sell part of the sharesā¦totalling 12.3k and hold & sell the remainder in the next tax year. Or you could use Bed & ISA ā¦ where you sell the shares in your GIA & immediately buy in your ISA - Again in the new tax year as you already have an ISA.
I believe FreeTrade also have an ISA transfer option.
Also any dividends received in you GIA over 2k per year would be liable for tax.
With my portfolio Iām not too worried about Capital Gains Taxā¦ 
Iād happily pay it if I get them gains 
Hi everyone, I was wondering if I could get some help please? I appreciate these questions are very beginner but Iām brand new to stocks and want to be clear about everything first!
So, when I looked at a UK stock it said there was a stamp duty fee of 0.5%. My question is, if I bought a stock with that fee applied, will that be deducted from the stock buy/sell price or is it charged seperately? Is it a one time thing or is it for as long as you hold the stock? Same question but with a FX fee of 0.45% please. The last thing I want to do is have loads of money come out of my bank account seperately every so often but is that how it works? Please can someone break it down into its my basic form? For example, āthe price of a share is Ā£10 but when bought it is Ā£9.55. This is a one time fee as part of the stock price.ā Thank you so much in advance!
Somewhat confused about index funds on FT. Most seem to be only available if I upgrade to Plus and the remainder donāt seem very compelling. Would it be better to use something like Vanguard for index fund investments if Iām looking to set aside a small amount each month for that, please?
All Vanguard funds on freetrade are free (as are Ishares and Invesco) and NOT in Plus soā¦ same, just cheaper on Freetrade.
Iām sure someone will correct me if Iām wrong, but I think the stamp duty and fix fees are added to the price. So a Ā£1 share with stamp duty would be Ā£1.05?
They are added and included in the total price, yes. Slight correction to your example though is that the cost for 1 share would be Ā£1.01 (Ā£1 plus stamp duty of 0.5% is Ā£1.005, rounded up to Ā£1.01).
In the Ā£10 per share example given further above by @Akakindz, the total cost would be Ā£10.05 (Ā£10 + 0.5% stamp duty), so a single Ā£10 would fail as there isnāt enough to buy the share plus stamp duty.
Mental maths, late at night, after a long dayā¦ Apologies.
I thought @Akakindz was using it as an easy to see example. So if, theoretically, a share costs Ā£10 would the stamp duty be part of that cost and the share in effect be actually worth less than Ā£10, or is it added to the cost so making the share a bit more.
So, if I wanted to buy a share priced at Ā£10, and stamp duty was applicable, it would cost me Ā£Ā£10.05.
Absolutely 
itās a tax applied on the transaction and could very well change in the future.
OK so as explained, I got no answer on the Robin Hood page so I deleted it.
Can I ask why people are talking about AMC on the yahoo finance Robin Hood page 
Why donāt you ask the people on yahoo?
Do you not think I have?
Donāt worry your selfās lads 
guessing itās pointless posting on here
So what do they say?
How would people on a different forum know why people on yet another forum talk about one thing in a thread of another thing? 
Obviously you and the pineapple bear are the thread police.
Iām paying for this app and needed some advice,
Iāll ask a gang at my kids school for some advice they might be a little more grown up.
Whether you like it or not, the answer is that we have no idea. We know as much as you do, and itās unclear why you believe people here should know.
I had a look through various āconversationsā for various different stocks (including AMC) and there seems to be a lot of what falls under the below categories:
All in all there seems to be very little due diligence being undertaken, and any that is done seems to be buried. As a whole, there seems to be little to no moderation whatsoever.
Why they are posting there? Could just general trolling? Perhaps attempting to bury any actual conversation about the Robin Hood stock? Perhaps they are using/confusing it as an actual Robin Hood forum? Perhaps none of those.
Thanks Jimmy,
Thatās the response I was looking for, Iām useless in this share game and keep getting stuck in short squeezes,
Fed up with little know it alls.
Warm regards Wayne
Everyone is different and have very different investing strategies and it really does depend on what you are wanting to achieve.
Before I started, I did a lot of research on various companies and did a lot of āummāing and arrāingā before I first decided to invest. I started with an ISA with another fintech which was fund based which I built up over a couple of years.
You would have thought someone who had researched and had started an ISA with investment funds would be sensible right? Well guess what? After reading about Gamestop I Threw all my research out of the window and jumped into various random stocks (ironically, none of them Gamestop either) supposedly undergoing a short squeeze and took a large loss.
There sometimes can be a lot of risk to consider and how you manage it can be really difficult. It took me a while to do this. Sometimes I see a stock that really does excite me, and itās very difficult to say ānoā but sometimes I find myself having to do so.
Not investment advice
After my ābaptism of fire,ā I decided myself was to invest 60% etf/funds, 30% established (safe?) stocks, 10% more risky ones. That way it would limit exposure to the more risky ones. I also set myself some specific rules and ensure that I stick to them.
If people are interested in a stock I look at finding out why for myself. If there is a lot of interest in a company, why are people interested? It sometimes can be very difficult to determine what is and isnāt true sometimes though. But in general, the question I ask myself is if I would be happy holding this for a year or two? If the answer is no, I consider walking away.
I do think that once you hear about a āshort squeezeā and donāt already hold that stock the odds are already stacked against you and you are likely too late to jump in. If Iām interested in a particular stock and there seems to be a lot of chatter about short interest and no other news about it, thatās my cue to consider walking away.
end of āNot investment adviceā
I realise it probably isnāt going to help you much, as everyone probably has everyone has some sort of story or anecdote that is similar. Iāve probably rambled on a bit and moved away from your original question too much as well.
New to Freetrade/Trading in general.
I gave setup an ISA account and invested Ā£500 into a single stock.
My Portfolio balance is showing -Ā£12 since I invested!
How is this calculated?