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You can think of the global all caps ETFs as essentially being constantly up-to-date and investable versions of the index. There are thousands of algorithmic trades every second which even out any differences in prices. If Apple is 3% of global indexes, it’s roughly 3% of VWRL, all the time.

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Constantly up-to-date so need to concern myself with the Wall Street fashion show. That’s pretty much what I thought thanks!

Hi,
I like to have some crypto exposure and while there are tons of mining stocks on NYSE and others like COIN, I would like exposure to crypto stocks currently on TSX. any plans to add?

Question - I’ve been sticking to UK stocks until now, and just ventured into a couple of US ones. With the UK ones I put in an amount and it buys whole stocks and gives me back ā€œchangeā€. With the US ones I put in an amount, and even if I work it so it should be whole stocks, it often isn’t. While I get that this is due to fractional shares being available, is there a way to lock the calculation on the app to whole shares only?

When you buy it will give you the option if you want whole or fractional shares!
I’ve never actually executed whole shares though! So I don’t know if it then rounds off fractional due to exchange rate

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Where do you find that? Afaik you can only specifically buy full shares with limit orders.

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Sorry it is the limit order I was talking about I thought when you bought gives you That option well it does but in limit orders
Which for That you have to be a plus member if I’m right?

Plus or Standard - one with a subscription, not on the basic. ~
I was looking for a way to do that for Instant orders.

If you place a limit order and insert a price around the current share price, there is a note which will state ā€œYour limit price is close to the latest price and may execute immediatelyā€. Which is what you want to achieve?

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Yeah, that might work. It’s a bit clunky though.

Plus membership

Hi. What time of day should I be reasonably expecting the app to start showing today’s data?

It’s now 8.25 a.m., and the app isn’t yet showing data under the 1D(ay) tab. (ā€œNo data available for periodā€).

Cheers

Price is 15 minutes delayed. So it is reasonable for you to expect the first data point to be displayed 15 minutes after market opening. If this doesn’t happen then please ping hello@freetrade.io as the issue should be ticketed as a bug.

Thanks @bitflip

I thought prices were live now? The app was a bit slow for me this morning too Live Pricing - how we built it

Not all have live pricing, think it’s only the ftse350 and us stocks. Those on AIM and ETFs I believe are still every 15minutes.

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Mine was slow to wake up this morning too, maybe just needs more coffee?

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Ooops.

Not all prices are delayed. So my answer needs to be modified to not confuse people. Scroll down on the app and you can see whether a share price is delayed or not:

Delayed:

Not Delayed:

Hey guys, do you know at what time dividends will be paid today? Cheers.

Might not even be today, Sometime US stocks can take a couple of days

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