Simple share trading - best app?

wmb194

collinsca said:

Petriix said:

What you want is a stocks and shares isa from Trading212. You can mess around buying small amounts (fractional shares) of various funds without too much risk. In the long run you probably want to mostly own a global equities tracker (personally I picked some vaguely ethical ETFs which exclude arms, tobacco and fossil fuels).

You can dabble in things like physical gold and Microstrategy (who hold huge amounts of bitcoin). I've put some money into renewable energy companies, more "trying to do the right thing" than expecting great returns and around 10% into bonds for a bit of diversity. The cool thing is there are no fees so you really can dip your toes in a few things while you're figuring it out. Just stay away from the CFD stuff... 

Thanks - Just to confirm, there are no fees to buy shares? are there fees to take your money out? (wondering what the catch is).. thanks

Nope, no catch. Down the road apparently it might introduce a 'freemium' pricing model similar to Freetrade and CMC Invest but for the moment there are no fees other than 0.15% for FX conversion if relevant (which is a good rate). The same as CMC, it currently makes good money from people gambling on CFDs - don't touch those - but it's looking to diversify into ordinary stockbroking.

https://www.trading212.com/

mattywallace121

Freetrade 

Petriix

mattywallace121 said:

Freetrade 

Freetrade charge for an ISA and don't do fractional shares on the free tier.