US Exchange rate

[samlan (Sam Landsman)]

You can vote for multi-currency accounts…

[Feature Request ] Multi Currency Accounts

I was just investigating a strange issue i’d had with the last few US stocks i’d traded, where my actual profit was almost £10 less than the profit that my portfolio told me I was going to make. I eventually found out that this is because every time I convert my GBP to USD, and then back again, i’m paying an additional 0.45% exchange fee. So that’s 0.9% per trade after you’ve bought and then sold the stock! Given that a lot of people on here, myself included, intend to only trade US stocks, al…

[Feature Request ] Multi Currency Accounts

I was just investigating a strange issue i’d had with the last few US stocks i’d traded, where my actual profit was almost £10 less than the profit that my portfolio told me I was going to make. I eventually found out that this is because every time I convert my GBP to USD, and then back again, i’m paying an additional 0.45% exchange fee. So that’s 0.9% per trade after you’ve bought and then sold the stock! Given that a lot of people on here, myself included, intend to only trade US stocks, al…

if/when this is implemented it will save active traders the 0.9% per trade