FTSE 350

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

Hi

We’re always open to adding more so if there’s any that you want to invest in, please do create a Stock Requests topic for them.

But we’re not aiming to completely cover the FTSE 350 in the near future -

Adding all US tradable stocks, ETFs, preferred stocks

To add some more details, the fundamental challenge here is that every new stock adds operational costs and complexity, so we want to optimise the list to be what our users want. We also need to consider the impact on user experience as there’s only so many stocks that we can add to the list in Discover (we’re at 250+ now) before it takes a very long time to scroll through them! So we’ll be reinventing Discover in the future. And despite those considerations, as our user base grows dramatically…

In case you haven’t seen it, I shared an update about our plans for stock additions earlier this week -

New stocks!

Hi everyone apologies for the slightly delayed update. Since we began adding stocks to the app, we’ve given everyone access to over 50 new stocks, ETFs & trusts. Freetrade customers can now invest in the majority of the securities in the FTSE 250, along with over 120 US stocks from our Stock Universe. We want to make investing accessible to everyone, particularly first-time investors & at this point, almost all of the best-known brands are available to invest in. So we’ve decided to red…

I’ve moved this topic to the Ideas category because adding the whole of the FTSE 350 would be a product decision, whereas Stock Requests are requests for individual stocks.