Freetrade Competitors

[CashCow (aka CrashCow)]

Congratulations to the teams at Trading212 and Dividend Tracker for pulling this off!

A Freetrade API is the the FIFTH HIGHEST voted for feature request on the Freetrade forum, first requested 5 years, 10 months, 30 days ago back on 4th May 2018 by forward thinker @naranmistry

[Feature Request ] APIs for Accessing User Portfolio

To provide a bit of background: one of my consistent frustrations with brokers in UK is that you don’t have easy access to your portfolio data via API unless you are logged in and/or using a blessed application of some sort. This seems to be a trend that’s reversing in banking (with open API initiatives finally happening). The lack of the openness just resulted in people using web-scrapers or other mechanisms that involved providing credentials - this is obviously insecure and unsatisfactory. H…

Great to see some glacial paced innovation in this space and hopefully it will motivate their competition to wake up. I look forward to hooking up my AJ Hell LISA to Dividend Tracker when the team over there jumps on this kind of thing.