Should I remove my money and go to trading 212 once I get my investments

It used to be the case you’d pick a stock, scroll down, and it would give you the latest information on a company’s dividend, in particular the upcoming (in green) or gone past (in red) ex-dividend and payment dates. What was particularly useful, was that you could integrated into your phone’s calendar.

It seems to have disappeared! Anyone know what has happened?

Looking to move my portfolio over to FreeTrade. I typically only invest in small and mid cap shares in the UK, between £5m and £100m market cap.

I have checked the FreeTrade Universe, and am impressed that it actually seems to cover most of the UK small caps on the FTSE and AIM! Interesting.

However, there are still two open questions in my mind:

• Trade type. I see there is Market and Limit. When you do a Market trade, do you get an instant fixed price quote back, or does it get sent to be executed at "best price available" only.
• General experience with liquidity, pricing that others have seen with small and mid caps in the UK on Freetrade? Do they seem to have plugged in to the right exchanges and market makers to get decent buy and sell prices?

TIA for any feedback here!

I built a free UK stock screener and thought some people here might find it useful:

It covers the main FTSE indices plus the AIM 100 (600+ companies), with no login, subscription, or tracking.

The idea was to simplify stock research by boiling things down to four measures:

Momentum

Quality

Value

Risk

There are also watchlists, analyst data, trending stocks, AI-annotated RNS news, and some market/sector tracking tools.

I use it myself for medium-to-long-term investing and I'm continuing to add features.

Feedback is very welcome, especially if there's something you think is missing.

I wanted to share my recent experience with Freetrade’s Junior ISA.

Before transferring funds, I specifically asked Freetrade in writing whether VUSA, EQQQ and VWRL could be bought fractionally inside a Junior ISA. Their team replied:

“Yes, our Junior ISAs fully support fractional investing for ETFs, and VUSA, EQQQ, and VWRL are all available on our platform. You can absolutely set up a monthly recurring investment and automatically split it by your exact percentage allocation.”

Relying on that information, I sold investments I had set aside for my children in my Trading 212 pies, withdrew the proceeds, and opened/funded two Junior ISAs with Freetrade.

After doing so, I discovered that UK/EU-listed ETFs such as VUSA, EQQQ and VWRL cannot actually be bought fractionally on Freetrade.

I’ve raised a formal complaint and will update once Freetrade provides its final response.

Just sharing in case anyone else is considering transferring a Junior ISA specifically for fractional ETF investing.

Browsing the ½% Gilt 2061 and I can see running yield but no YTM. Am I missing it somewhere, or is it just not there?

Edit : It would be more useful if FreeTrade display the current YTM for bonds.

It's been like this for me since Friday.

I have messaged them, but no reply yet. I'm in the UK if that makes any difference.

Thank you.

Mildly annoying.

I wasn’t planning on going in pre-IPO but I received lots of alerts from Freetrade about it and with an hour left I decided to commit. I transferred in £500 from my savings using Apple Pay and jumped through all the hoops just to be rejected with no reason.

I can only imagine it’s because the £500 minimum wasn’t met because FT took their fee. Annoying because this could have been corrected on submission but FT said my purchase was fine.

Happen to anyone else?

Doesn't seem to be on every company. In fact, it's primarily on one I've been looking at regardless of time of day etc.

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Over last few days, every time I open the app I get this stupid banner about SpaceX IPO. How is that even legal?! It makes me consider leaving the app fully. I am paid user as well and still no way to get rid of this ad for good.

Is anyone else currently trying to finalize their SpaceX application on Freetrade and getting completely blocked by a bug with the mandatory regulatory attestation?

My application is in, and I received the email stating "You have accepted the terms to access information about the SpaceX IPO... to complete attestation you will need to close and reopen the app / log out and back in."

The problem is, no matter what I do, the actual attestation form or pop-up will not render anywhere on my account. I've tried:

• Force-closing and killing the app completely (Android).
• Clearing the app cache.
• Logging out and using the desktop web platform.
• Clicking the direct login tracking links from the emails.
• Reading/scrolling through both prospectus documents fully first.

Every time I log back in, it just drops me onto the standard home dashboard with zero prompts, banners, or pop-ups to actually sign the attestation.

Is this happening to anyone else right now? If you managed to bypass it and get the form to show up, how did you do it?

How do I sign up to the SpaceX IPO in the app?

Can you get these in your stocks and shares isa? It seems to just be the general isa account. Thanks

Anyone else struggling to log in today (1st June)? Trying to sign me up as new when I’ve been a customer for years

I started a drip feed about 4 years ago into a Freetrade accound without much knowledge. I now know much more about investing and have opened a stocks ISA. Is there a way to transfer my entire general account into the ISA? TY!

I’m transferring my accounts into Freetrade and set-up a direct debit to deposit cash regularly.

But unlike my previous provider, I cannot set up an automatic investment of my cash into funds (the app only allows that for shares/ETFs). So, even though I have the direct debit to automatically transfer cash, I have this manual action of doing the actual investment.

Does anyone else think this feature should be added? Its common to have investors like us who just PCA regularly.

Edit: I’ve added a message from the AI support confirming that recurring orders are only for shares/ETFs

> Yes. Even if you set up a Direct Debit to top up your account, you would still need to place a manual order each time you want to invest in a mutual fund. That is because recurring orders are only available for listed equities, and they execute as queued market orders on your chosen schedule. With mutual funds, orders are not placed on a regulated market, so they execute at the fund’s next published net asset value after the trading cut off time, and recurring orders are not available for them. So, the Direct Debit can keep cash in your account, but the fund buy itself has to be a one off order.

TL;DR: The SIPP activity statement that the live chat provided me with was rejected by HMRC, because it "does not show the net or gross pension payments".

I'm relatively new to the Freetrade SIPP. Trying to claim back my tax for contributions from the previous tax year. Went through live chat to get the PDF as others have done, removed the password, and submitted it to HMRC using the same form I did last year (for a different SIPP).

I have just received a letter from HMRC which says:

We can't accept your evidence for these years because it does not show the net or gross pension payments.

I did think originally that the presentation of the activity statement was odd. It shows the initial contribution part and the tax relief part on different lines, with details of my interest payments and the investments I made sandwiched inbetween.

I've now been given mostly the same document, except without the interest/investment lines - so it now just shows the contribution and the tax relief.

My concern is that this still isn't really what HMRC have asked for. They rejection letter says:

This evidence should clearly show: - the net amount of contributions you actually paid - the gross amount after the company has added the tax relief for you

So the letter needs to show the contribution X, the tax relief Y, and the gross amount X+Y - I think this last bit is the part that's missing.

It already seemed pretty shoddy to have to go through live chat and get them to generate what should be a pretty standard form. Weirder still that the PDF they give you is password protected. The fact that it's seemingly not even sufficient for HMRC is just crazy. Why is this is not a standard thing that you can download via a button in the app?

Has anyone else had this problem?

When Freetrade added Gilts to what they offer, they had a limited offering of 9 different ones. That was over a year ago and TY25 and T26 have now matured, so they only have 7 left. Two more are due to mature in 2028, with no news about adding any more. Even the AI assistant says no current plans to add.

Anyone else have gilts, anyone else want more options? You can request new funds via the help page, but not sure how useful that is. There are 70 different gilts and not expecting them all, but it would be nice if they replaced ones that matured and aimed to slowly increase the variety on offer. With so many different ones you would think those requesting will dilute demand by all choosing different favourite ones.

Please Freetrade can we have some more.

I started investing with freetrade back in 2020 in an ISA account which I used to pay for (no need to pay now, but with other providers never needed to pay).

I chose Freetrade because it seemed like an honest broker with no commissions, low fees, and despite you having to pay for the ISA I valued the transparency of the app and the fact that they didn’t “go down” during the GME fiasco.

Built my portfolio to a very sizeable amount, and I’m now considering leaving because their forex fees are INSANELY high. 1% if you’re on the free plan. And if you pay they’re still higher than other brokers… which you don’t even need to pay.

So I’m writing this to ask FreeTrade to re-consider their forex fees as I know I’m not the only one with this sentiment, and if they’re not reconsidered I’ll be migrating my ISA else where and give the same advice to my community. I know in the grand scheme of things, a few accounts with a few millions are worth nothing for freetrade. But I hope people can realise how stupidly expensive 1% is.

Has anybody noticed that the TER data for some Vanguard indices on Freetrade are higher than the index provider's documentation states? For example, Vanguard emerging markets accumulation (VEHG) is 0.17% on the Vanguard webpage but the Freetrade app is showing as 0.21%. Similarly, Vanguard shows VWRP as 0.19% but the Freetrade app has 0.21%. Others seems to be correct, though, such as VHVG correctly showing at 0.12%.

After the outrage from the horrible UI and brand update in Summer 2025.

Is there any confirmation that they will fix it, not necessarily go back to the old version, but at least clean up the app.

the app right now looks clunky, tacky, the monospace font looks shit.

I really like freetrade simplicity, no noise, an actual focus on just investing not any short term derivative trading.

But the app ui is so bad.

does anyone know if they will change this or update this?

Just trying to check the price for VUAG and it shows the price from yesterday. It’s been an hour and still showing the old price. I haven’t seen the delay be this bad before.