Freetrade is Out 🔥 Share your first thoughts once you get access!

[Golden (Denislav)]

@mk_1

Absolutely loving the app and enjoying finding my feet with investments. However have made a few orders forgetting to switch to basic trades. It would be good if basic trades were a default.

Regards

This has been raised a few times and there is a topic in which it has been suggested to be changed to basic trade as default. Feel free to put your vote down!

Default trade set to basic

I know there is a thread discussing which trade type to make default, but as we are now voting I wanted this thread to be explicitly for BASIC trade as default. Get voting folks.

[Rik (Richard varga)]

User 110…

After reading all the feedback practially everything I would recommend has been mentoned. So i’ll just mention afew things…

Revolutionary is the word I would use to describe this product… What freetrade has done with investing/trading is what apple did with the Iphone…nothing was the same again and I honestly believe this product is one of the biggest milestones in investing in a long long time…

I couldn’t believe how quick the initial setup was! I also couldn’t believe how polished the app was…I got in during the testing period but it sure didn’t feel like it! all questions I asked were answered within afew mintures

As I mainly trade US tech stocks i’m very excited to see the implimentation of these aswell as the Alpha account!!

All in all i’m over the moon with this product and feel super lucky to be user 110 and being invited to help test it out!

To all of the freetrade team, well done guys! what an amazing product and support you offer with it!
Most of all THANK YOU!!! This is a product i’ve been wanting for years and you’ve delivered!!

[Freetrade_Team]

Over the !

[stevescat (Steve Sharrott)]

User 107

Before early access to the Freetrade app, the possibility of owning shares for me was zero. It was never a consideration. Too difficult to get into - not for me.

Well, after a super-easy account setup, a slightly frustrating transfer of funds experience - partly due to me omitting the reference number, duh! very quickly sorted by live chat, and also less than speedy appearance of funds in my account. I guess being spoilt by Monzo transactions appearing immediately. I now have a simple portfolio of shares that I own!!! It’s truly a fantastic feeling.

I’m now obsessed with opening the app every five minutes to check on progress, I’ve got to stop this, it can’t be healthy.

Congratulations to all at Freetrade for a very polished app that will only get better, especially with first class community feedback.

[Andrewpclark (Andrew Clark)]

Hi, I’m not sure I’ve seen these two mentioned:

1. On the portfolio screen at the top is the Freetrade logo and the account icon. The other three tabs don’t have this. When I click on the Freetrade icon nothing happens. Could it hyperlink to something useful like a “refer a friend” link?
2. A lot of my stocks are showing red numbers next to them. I’d prefer green.

Thanks

[jbrierley1 (James Brierley)]

I think the app is impressively polished for an Alpha/Test flight version.

My advice would be to accelerate (although dependant on authorisation and regulation) as much as possible the roll out of ISA/Freetrade Alpha/Sipp’s etc. I am sold and would completely move my full Stocks/Shares Balance Sheet to Freetrade.

On another note and I know this was potentially declined when mentioned by the community, but please please please integrate with Monzo and allow me to have ‘Freetrade Pot’, I know there are lots of Monzo staff trying to sign up for this, this to me is a HUGE no brainer. It would also just be phenomenal. I’m not talking particularly advanced integration. Just the ability to see the value of the pot in Monzo.

[hendax (Anthony Henderson)]

I only got access to the app today and have made my first few trades. I have a couple of suggestions which I will add to my post as they crop up. Others may have suggested the same so apologies if I repeat anything already requested. In no particular order:

1. The option to select a particular number of shares (#) rather than an amount (£). I’m a little OCD and like to buy 5 or 10 or 15 shares etc. I had to keep adjusting the amount (£) to get the right number of shares I wanted.

2. Can companies in Discover also be grouped? So Advertising, Banking, Commodities etc?

3. The option to watch companies? So have a personal list of companies you want to watch before buying. So rather than having to find them in Discovery each time, have a personal watch list I can check. A bit like Amazon’s ‘Wishlist’. Companies to come back and buy later.

4. The app to link to your community profile so it shares photo and investor badge.

[Vlad (Vladislav Kozub)]

@hendax

The option to select a particular number of shares (#) rather than an amount (£). I’m a little OCD and like to buy 5 or 10 or 15 shares etc. I had to keep adjusting the amount (£) to get the right number of shares I wanted.

Hey Anthony, you are not alone here! Feel free to vote for the idea you just proposed, as well as other Ideas you find interesting and useful.

@hendax

Can companies in Discover also be grouped? So Advertising, Banking, Commodities etc?

Filtering by the investment type and even sector is a great idea too, the more votes, the more likely it is to be prioritised.

@hendax

The option to watch companies? So have a personal list of companies you want to watch before buying. So rather than having to find them in Discovery each time, have a personal watch list I can check. A bit like Amazon’s ‘Wishlist’. Companies to come back and buy later

It is your lucky day today, this has also been raised!

@hendax

The app to link to your community profile so it shares photo and investor badge.

This is not something that has come up before, feel free to create such post in Ideas if you’d like

[HJLC (Harry)]

Exciting first day using the app!

Love the design; it’s clean and intuitive. Many thoughts I have are already mentioned by others, though here are some of my initial suggestions…

On the chart view, currently it only shows relative percentage change in price. I think it’d also be very useful to be able to see the absolute price of a stock, with the option to toggle between the two measures. Perhaps a scale on the bottom as well?

Understand we’re still in testing phase and not sure if this is a known bug or where to report this. I’ve noticed that the stock movement description under the current price doesn’t always seem to reflect what’s happening on the graph (see below). Would also be useful if this stock movement description changes dependent on the graph time scale.

https://i.imgur.com/dFhpdEC.jpg

The market closed before my money arrived, so haven’t had a chance to place my first trade just yet - that to look forward to tomorrow!

Thank you and congratulations to all at Freetrade that made this happen!

[tbutz]

Very happy to be user #392, got my invite yesterday, set up, loaded money and even made my first trade!

As an iPhone SE user I’m afraid a number of screens look weirdly cluttered, with the greyed-out button often overlaying other content, usually due to the keyboard taking up half the space. I was able to cope, but it’s something I think you should look at.

Today I made a queued order (yesterday I paid the £1 for immediate), and my Portfolio page is showing £124.38. Considering I’ve only loaded £100, bought about £50 of shares, and my new queued order is about £25, I think perhaps the calculation is going awry?

Same on the Account tab:

This is confusing to me.

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

Hi Tony, thanks for the feedback! Could you please send us a message via the live chat so that we can look into those issues

[Baggyb]

Looks great so far! Very happy to be in. One thing I’ve noticed, when you are on the page of a stock, on the graph of performance when you press ‘max’ it doesn’t seem to tell you how long that period is. Sorry if this has already been raised!

[kenny (Kenny Grant)]

@Baggyb

One thing I’ve noticed, when you are on the page of a stock, on the graph of performance when you press ‘max’ it doesn’t seem to tell you how long that period is. Sorry if this has already been raised!

I thought exactly the same - I think it’s good people are raising the same points again - it means free trade have some indication of which things people find most important just by the frequency with which they come up amongst new users.

I’d encourage everyone who hasn’t yet used their votes to head over to the ideas category and cast your vote for the feature you want the most, or add any new ideas you have to that list as well as posting impressions here. There is a discussion there of the Portfolio Chart Design which includes this idea:

[Feature Request ] Portfolio chart design

The chart seems to be a mix of Cash and Securities but I think I just want to see how the overall Securities are performing. The total balance etc should maybe be in smaller text if it’s on Portfolio or on the Account Tab. Unless I’m misreading the graph it suggests I’m down 37% because I tried the Cash Withdrawl Important: @kenny’s Poll

[josephgoh]

Hi #user 466 here. Just got access to the app yesterday and done my first trade

The app looks very slick and I enjoy the UI so far. However I have one suggestion for the monthly statement like to have one tab or section that shows the breakdown of the trades you have made and the breakdown of the fee and stamp duty.

Other than that I quite enjoy my experience with Freetrade so far

[BethS (Beth)]

just waiting to be verified

So far, so smooth.

[BethS (Beth)]

#560. Enjoying a round number.

Just queued a bunch for 4pm with money that has been sitting doing nothing for a year

[rickyshaf (Ricky Shafier)]

Just got access. Really like the UX. Clean, intuitive and easy to use. No bugs to report either and the basic and immediate trades worked. I’m sure the below features/updates are on the roadmap but thought I would share:

• Showing the price rather than the % on the share performance graph. It’s very difficult to ascertain how well my portfolio is performing
• Being able to click on the graph so we can see what the price was at a given period
• Watchlist. Somewhere you can add stocks you want to monitor. Also with an option of seeing the performance of that stock since you added it to the watchlist
• The portfolio doesn’t actually seem to tell me if I’m up or down. It would be good to have a monetary figure as well as a %.

[stephen]

For me, the portfolio graph doesn’t do anything at the moment. I’d rather have the real estate to show my holdings.

[HoddzDJ (Ben #88)]

@rickyshaf

Watchlist. Somewhere you can add stocks you want to monitor. Also with an option of seeing the performance of that stock since you added it to the watchlist

+1 for this. Also allows me to bookmark them to buy later when I move funds in.

[neovo]

A couple of times I’ve had rejected orders, any plans to put some sort of explanation alongside it?