Iād like to see Freetrade incorporate more educational information within the app.
For example, once the appās a little more data rich, itād be nice to be able tap icons like this
or hyperlinked words to get a concise pop-up explantation of investment jargon, such as P/E ratio, market capitalisation, OCF/TER, indicative spread and so on.
As another example: Iāve never been great with graphs, so Iād appreciate being told in laymanās terms precisely what a chartās showing me ā otherwise itās semi-useless at a glance.
With any luck this sort of thingās included within ābetter stock insightsā or āimproved portfolio analyticsā on the roadmap but I thought it would be interesting to solicit the communityās ideas about how to educate investors inside the app itself.
Going forward, In app education is something I really would have loved to see. Iām quite surprised this feature hasnāt gotten much traction. And I donāt jut mean an explanation of what a P/E ratio, Z-score, etc is, Iād take it a step further in that it should explain investing at itās core.
Most of us might be reasonably financially literate, but there will be many first time investors using Freetrade in the future. I have a friend who got into investing but he was erratically investing in companies/star managers without any proper due diligence. And learning neednāt be so mundane - getting him to adopt a more sensible approach was as simple as showing him a few images:
Why we invest (An expectation of beating cash in the long term, thereby building wealth)
Risk (and/or volatility
Risk tolerance
Compounding
Diversification (not a fan of the permanent portfolio, but it illustrates diversification amazingly imo)

Active vs Passive debate
thereās lots to this ādebateā, but fees take the cake:

I only feel comfortable referring somebody if iām confident that, at the very least, they understand the above. Needless to say, my mateās been plodding along passively with world ETFs ever since (Iām not knocking stock picking, etc - Just the practice of underestimating the difficulty of valuing a company). So, iād love to see this kind of information implemented into freetrade, personally.
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