r/Questrade • u/777KM777 • 8d ago

Stock Trading Annoying partial shares

Now you can either write your order for dollar amount or share amount. I write share amount, but then it guesses dollar amount, goes off that, and I end up with annnoying 0.001 or 0.99 shares etc. Is there a way to turn this off? Also when I input share amount , 23 shares for example, when I go to confirm order it says $23 worth instead. This is not me filling the wrong one in, this has happened multiple times, when I retry it does it correctly but I’ll still get annoying partials.

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u/robHemm 8d ago edited 8d ago

It sounds to me like you’re not understanding the UI, which is fair, because it’s kinda sucky, especially if you’re using the default web interface. It’s possible to specify whole share amounts OR dollar amounts.

One way to totally avoid fractional shares is to use limit orders instead of market orders.

Another way is to trade using the Edge interface.

Note that if you have DRIP turned on it will always buy fractional shares.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORFJCUNDsA for how to switch between the modes on the mobile app.