Introduce yourself šŸ‘‹

Iā€™m Eve, from Singapore. Iā€™ve never invested before, and Iā€™m hoping Freetrade will make this seem less daunting/ inaccessible. I love trying new things, so why not?
Other than hanging out around fintech forums, I enjoy reading, eating, and travelling.

Since this has turned from an introduction thread to a queue bump thread, could you do the same for me please :innocent:

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I am Vlad, originated from Russia but have lived in the UK for 5 years now and studying towards a finance-related degree.

Only recently started investing myself and it opened a whole new world to me, plenty of new opportunities to learn and advance in. Once I found out about Freetrade, I got devoured by its ethos and objectives, hence fully belong to this community now.

And Alex, I also want to be bumped up in the queue :wink:

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Iā€™m Marta. I donā€™t need a bump in the queue, because Iā€™m an investor. But not sure where is my badge! :sob:

I always enjoyed the idea of investing, but few companies that I tried were either very complex or had rip-off fees (Moneybox, Iā€™m talking about you). Nice to meet you all! :wink:

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Hello everyone, Iā€™m Rod.

Freetradeā€™s community is great because weā€™re all learning something, even though no-one knows anything about how The Market will behave. Thank you all.

I am dusty old Gen-Xer. I was a late starter to investing and started after wondering how to fund my future and discovering the Monevator site. Have been investing for a few years. 99% of it is buy-and-hold, and of that 95% is very vanilla passive index tracking and gov bonds, and 5% is risky business which includes Chinese internet stocks, investing in startups like Freetrade, dabbling in cryptos etc. The tinkering with the 5% makes it easier for me to be disciplined about the 95%, or so I tell myself.

I do product design and management stuff for tech startups, but these days I mostly write about them and for them.

(Assuming that a little bit of shameless self-promotion is acceptable, I will link to a couple of things which might be of interest here: Co-op Digitalā€™s weekly newsletter which is about whatā€™s happening in internet/digital and why itā€™s interesting for retail businesses and wider society - Amazon and the rest of big tech, social media, privacy, security, cryptos, UK fintech, and so on. And Checksies which is an infrequent newsletter thing about how to do money and investment things for people who are busy.)
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Hey all! Iā€™m SimonB. Some of you may know me through my work as a COps Community Specialist at a cool lil bank called Monzo. You know, the one with the awesome hot coral card and all the emojis :wink:

Freetrade seems like a cool company and Iā€™m looking forward to checking it out! Feels like the barrier to entry for investing has historically been quite high, and Freetrade will hopefully make a big impact in removing that barrier :grinning:

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Hello everyone, Iā€™m Harley.

Iā€™m 18 and a new investor, currently only have a target retirement fund (vanguard, just started, Ā£300 monthly) and ā€˜high interestā€™ bank accounts as investments- also a pension but Iā€™m not sure that counts.

I like working out, music, boxing (watching & participating), reading,hanging out with my friends/family and have a slowly growing watch addiction.

Iā€™m very new to all this but with plenty of reading and analysing, I hope to make a few pretty pennies or pounds.

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This is my hope as well, a simple platform where I can invest freely with good charts/ stats (hopeful). Even long term investments I have in mind werenā€™t very accessible before, what with fees and minimums etc.

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Hello

Iā€™ve been investing on and off for about 15 years now, made so many mistakes and a few wins. Iā€™m a solutions architect by trade and work in the inane sector (recently).

I invested in Freetrade because I saw many parallels with Monzo and we all know how well that is going so far, but also because I am tired of broker fees pushing out people who would like to invest but who canā€™t afford Ā£1,000 a month just to bring the trading fee down to a reasonable %. I kept thinking wouldnā€™t it be great if I could just put this spare Ā£20 into my fund, sure I can do that with traditional brokers ā€¦ after I give them Ā£12 leaving me Ā£8 for my fund.

So I am here because I want Freetrade to be a success and by default myself too.

Oh and I have a 5 year old boy and a beautiful wife. :heart_eyes:

And a cat ā€¦ called zenny

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Hi, Iā€™m Adam :wave:

Iā€™m from Canada but have been in London for the last five years and love it here. I really miss unspoiled wilderness though. :sunrise_over_mountains:

Iā€™ve always been super interested in investing but it was only after getting married and starting a family (three kids now!) that I got more thoughtful about it. I started Freetrade because I knew there were others like me out there and I needed to do something about it.

I adore our team and community, so lucky to be a part of it!

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@rod - the above applies to me too, though less of the ā€˜oldā€™ :wink:

Anyway, hello, Iā€™m Weenie and I invest because I enjoy it and so that I can retire early.

Iā€™ve invested in Freetrade and look forward to using the app as I already think Iā€™m paying enough in investing fees with other platforms and as @stephen mentioned, sometimes, I only want to invest a small amount.

60% my portfolio is in index tracker funds/ETFS (mostly Vanguard), 30% in investment trusts (including dividend heroes) and some individual shares, the rest mostly in cash (premium bonds). My strategy is predominantly buy and hold.

My intention is to earn enough dividend income from my investment trusts/shares to cover my basic expenses.

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Good morning all!

Iā€™ve been registered on this forum since the beginning, but havenā€™t spent much time here at all.

My name is Nick (username is a give away), and a few of you have probably seen my cartoon face frequenting the Monzo and Starling forums.

I thought Iā€™d give myself a FreeTrade flat cap in the absence of FreeTrade swagā€¦

Considering I know next to nothing about investing properly, itā€™s probably a good time to start reading up before the launch happens!

My interest first peaked in investing years ago, when I first heard about Robinhood in the US - I was half expecting them to make their way over to the UK, but that never materialised.

When I heard about FreeTrade, I was really keen to learn more, and this forum seems to have exploded with content over the past few months!

I currently use Wealthify, but Iā€™ll be looking to manually move as much as I can into FreeTrade.

First ever investment: FreeTrade (OKā€¦ starting to sound a little ā€œfan boyā€ now, so Iā€™ll stop!)

I look forward to learning from you all.

Nick

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My word thatā€™s a sore one. I worked with people pre dot-com crash who had stock options close to maturing worth Ā£millions on paper. I still remember their ā€˜it surely canā€™t go any lowerā€™ chatā€¦

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Hi there. New to this too. Soaking up lots of information about investing and excited about Freetrade.

Does anyone know how long it takes to get through the queue? I just joined so Iā€™m position no 50,000+

Andy :smile:

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Hey Andy, welcome :smile:

If you refer just one friend, youā€™ll jump to around 6,000 in the queue at the moment :eyes:

Weā€™re going to do the rollout in stages, thereā€™s some more info about how thatā€™ll work here..

More details on the rollout

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Hi, Iā€™m Liz. Mother of two girls, beer lover and triviatrix. Work in logistics and play my hand at investing with spare money. Brewdog success so far, lots more on paper, but holding out for Freetrade to change the world.

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Hey Iā€™m Danny, new to the investing scene, excited to learn and in it for the long haul.

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Ashish Raval here btw. I work in one of the hundreds of banks (in the London) in their investment banking division.

Investing is my hobby and it helps to keep me informed about the developments.

Motto is invest first half in risky companies developing ground breaking technologies and hedge it by investing the other half in boring dividend paying stable companies of FTSE-100.

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Hello All!

Iā€™m Danny, heard lots about this place over on Monzo & a few other places, and have been reading around the forums for a while. Thought itā€™s about time to say hello. Iā€™m joining from a background of a history of lots of debt, to now being on the verge of being debt free, and starting to prepare to make money work for me rather than giving it out interest to lenders. Fairly new to investment ā€œthinkingā€ so bear with me if I ask any stupidly obvious questions along the way!

:wave:

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Hi Iā€™m Matt, in Italy we are ready to start trading with this amazing app canā€™t wait for it.

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