+£10 in green
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Thank you 
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Apart from today where for some users it would have said £110 in green!
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I have still some spikes in my graph because when I buy a stock sometimes the price is added to my portfolio for some minutes.
Last time it happened less than a month ago.
It could interfere with +/-.
I’ve figured it has something to do with ETFs, they seem to trade later on so it seems to settle with both the cash and ETF price represented on the graph.
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I thought Freetrade said they were working on eliminating the spikes created by those situations about a month ago - the fix may have rolled out after your last spike. Apparently if you try the in-app chat they can iron out these spikes, but I never got around to doing so myself.
I raised this in chat recently and while it took a few days, the team did fix it
Yes I had a spike today with my deposit, this isn’t the first time I’ve had this. I’ve passed it on to customer service via live chat to smooth it out.
Now in my case I’m seeing “up by +148.45” instead of +150.84. The latter is calculated according to displayed money - top up.
Yeah it’s a neat feature but I don’t think it’s calculating it properly… Says I’m down by £4.70 since investing which doesn’t seem to be right because I’ve been going rather up all the time.
(On Android)
Does this take in to account dividend earned
In short, yes…
G/L calculation = (current positions value - total cash spent)+dividends
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Understood. Maybe the free share gained for the invitation causes some imbalance in the calculation.
Are you certain that is how freetrade calculates it?
Mine looks as though it’s treating the dividends as an investment rather than a return.
that’s what @Jani explained to me… and what I validated against my own calculations…
Great. Thanks for clarifying! 
That’s pretty cool actually. I have never had a broker that record dividends as well, which gives a much more accurate view on performance.
Freetrade should be more vocal about this!
The free share is counted as invested by you, but it should be completely gained as you didn’t pay anything for it.
I think it’s best as it is. I’d rather the actual investment gains rather than include gifts as part of the gain. Only my personal preference 
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Yes, when the dividends are tracked properly then it should be easy to look at it any way you like. But my figures are definitely not showing dividends as gains.