Exciting! Will we still be able to easily buy ‘whole’ shares? Currently, I usually set the amount 5% over just to make sure I have enough to buy a share. Will this mean I’ll now end up with 1.05 shares every time?
And will we be able to not only buy 1x share, but 0.5, 0.25 etc? Otherwise those odd fractions are going to drive me nuts! 
Just out of curiosity, will we have the option of buying a whole share and a fraction of the share? Personally I’d only want to use the fractional shares function for certain shares.
Exciting times ahead though for Freetrade! I’ll be able to finally invest in Amazon & Alphabet which is fantastic.
@Gaz92 @LewisHarding We’ll finalise all these details and let you know!
Will there be an in app notification when this goes live on our accounts?
Imagine Freetrade will be shouting from the rooftops when this launches!
A very good question. The existing fractional implementation from another broker is driven by number of shares, not cost.
I wouldn’t assume so. The order process has been designed around ordering a £ amount of shares, which is perfect for fractionals, but I don’t see how it could accommodate ordering whole shares unless something is changed.
I can’t imagine there won’t be an option to toggle fractionals off/on.
They may not allow fractionals for all stocks anyway, so it would be odd to have something different to happen to one stock as opposed to another.
And my OCD will go into overdrive if I end up with fractions all over the place.
I’ve seen similar things on currency exchanges that could give insight to how it may work.
Say you’re buying EUR with GBP. You can say you want £100 worth of EUR and you’ll get €118.69 as of writing. Or you can say you want €100 and it will cost you £84.25 at the moment.
I could imagine a similar thing in specifying that I want £50 of a stock, or that I want 0.5, 1.0, or however many shares.
In both of these cases, there would ideally be additional UI to control limit orders, which are on the FT road map for medium term (3-6 months). I want 0.5 shares but I only want to pay X for them. Or I want £50 worth of shares as long as they cost X or less.
Exciting times anyway. Looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
I can only see me using fractionals to buy Google and Amazon. The rest I’ll be sticking to buying like usual 
nice wee feature but for folk who want to diversify with low funds.
Not only. For anyone with a strategy to allocate specific percentages to holdings. Albeit that will be more exciting once fractional etfs are introduced.
There must (i.e. should) be a way to buy whole shares.
I am assuming that fractions will have a higher trade fail rate. Is that correct? E.g. if I want to buy AMZN for $1,870 (around 101%), and nobody else fills the rest of the second share, then FT would probably just cancel the trade instead of covering the remaining 99% of the second share.
Just to add my voice to the above comments about how orders are currently placed. I would loose my mind if I kept ending up with 1.04 shares when I wanted 1. Would prefer to switch it off and only turn it on when I need it but I appreciate this may not be the norm or what FT would prefer
agree with you on that one
Hopefully it’s as simple as either typing in the amount box OR the number of shares box. Then they cross update depending which box you typed in.
Ive sold shares on another platform that has fractional buying and if its a high value share and you don’t type the right number and all numbers after the decimal point exactly you do get left with a minute part of the share. It might sound trivial but there is often 5 or six numbers after the decimal point and they always show in your portfolio. And its too low to sell and becomes clutter
Freetrade will hold any fraction of the share that isn’t held by a user, freetrade will need to be able to hold a fraction of every share that is available in fractions
I hope fractions are optional.
I’m very OCD with my amounts. Which is troublesome with lower priced stuff!
Codf don’t get me wrong the residue from previous share sales is down to me, I thought one or two points after the decimal point would be enough and it was’t. If you get number right it works a treat.
I usually invest at the start of every month. Wondering whether to hold off until fractional shares are available… 