My two largest positions are SE and MELI. I was under the impression these had not yet been added to Freetrade and I had regularly been searching for them to move these positions onto Freetrade.
Every time I searched for MELI this came up (see first screenshot) but when I search for MEL (see second screenshot) it actually returns the stock in question.
@Viktor is there any reason why this search functionality returns such strange results?
Why not use the actual company name instead of tickers? I think that this makes much more sense given the freetrade audience. Canāt see a real issue here!?
The first search almost looks like itās assuming you made a spelling mistake as it looks like itās searching for āmediā instead of āmeliā (note it appears to be searching the company ātagā lines as well.
The second search shows that tag line search, as it looks like itās searching every piece of text for āseaā then ordering results by company name
(E.g āseaā ā Seattle bookshop)
Itās really strange, and clearly you should be able to search by ticker. And results should return at least by company name and ticker first.
That is exactly what I thought but it did seem strange as a rule given ālā and ādā are not near each other on the keyboard.
I looked at the Apple text rules, I appreciate these are a source of truth but the whole western world has helped build them, and it does not correct āmeliā to āmediā.
Surely if a four letter search matches a ticker then that should be the top result with the others following it.
MercadoLibre is in the search results, but itās 39th out of 61 results. I can understand why itās sorted by name though. Sorting by relevance is hard and they still have a lot of development to do.
Very likely. It also returns Chipotle which has āMexicanā in the long description.
Also Akamai for which I cannot see anything resembling āmeliā in any of its text.
The algorithm obviously searches for similar words in case of a mistype but it seems to go too far.
I know it was in the search results but my guess would be if the average person types in the ticker and the company does not appear in the top searches they will likely assume it is not on Freetrade so not a great UX.
Iām a Freetrade investor and long time user and I gave up, so Iām sure others will too. It means that Freetrade has missed out on the FX of my position because I wonāt be moving it across now.
I think something happened with search and it no longer works.
It chooses fuzzy matches over direct matches. Try looking for AVIVA ā no matter how many letters you type the result you are looking for is usually in the end of the list while indirect matches like āaviationā are on top.
Saying that it is tailored to tickers is incorrect. If I type in AV (exact ticker for Aviva) I get NLY, AST, AGR and god knows what else.
If that was in reference to my comment, I was meaning that whatever search algorithm theyāre using itās clearly not tailored to stock based searching.
It does need fixed. Although if it needs fixed itās a good time to improve search overall as itās always been fairly simple (no filtering, no sort by type, no market based search etc)
Yep,
When I type in āAvivā I expect first result to be Aviva, not āAeroVironmentā, followed by āAvevaā, followed by āAVI Globalā, followed by āAvisā etc.
Iād guess thatās because until this year there werenāt many stocks on the app. A search wouldnāt return enough results for any sorting to make a real difference so it wasnāt a priority.
As the number of available stocks increases a good search experience becomes ever more important.
I have a strong suspicion that itās the introduction of fuzzy search that spiced things up. Although itās possible that it was always there in which case you are correct -)
Interesting, it was brought up here that the fuzzy matching includes key words so it finds all the āinternetā companies, then alphabetises them. Itās not the most intuitive.