# Freetrade: A Platform Too Restrictive for Advanced Investors

Hey all here,

Please just a gently reminder about our community rules, in particular to be kind and helpful.

@tobywhaymand thanks for raising some of these important new markets that we should offer. We’d love to be able to offer investors access to all major stock exchanges. That’s certainly one of our long term goals.

However, the work that is involved in adding some of these exchanges can be quite intensive and varied. We’re still a reasonably young company, so there are a lot of features that we need to add, including a broader selection of foreign stock exchanges.

Different countries will have different settlement and clearing mechanisms that we need to integrate with to enable trading on these exchanges. It’s unfortunately the case that many overseas exchanges are not readily available to UK investors. ASX is a good example of an exchange that is not offered by a number of the major direct to consumer platforms in the UK.

Regardless, we’re going to continue on our mission to unlock trading on all major global stock exchanges and we’ll tick these off wish lists one at a time!

Best,
Alex

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