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Big thanks to all of you for your help and sound advice on my platform woes. You know who you are :)
Oh I should add, apart from this year which has been unusual, I probably make less than 10 trades a year.
If I traded more often I'd have to do the numbers to see if I could get better value elsewhere.
Interactive Investor charge a monthly fee of £9.99 a month, but give back £7.99 as a trading credit on broker fees.
LivLou
This is no endorsement, just my experience.
I trade via a Halifax account, and have done so for over 30 years.
£9.50 maximum dealer fees. Some sells are free.
It allows me to easily transfer funds as I bank with Halifax.
I can buy straight into my ISA.
I also have a normal Halifax dealing account which I use as a bed.
I only buy a minimum £1000 of shares at a time to minimise impact of dealer fee, and usually try to buy £5000 at a time.
It gives instant price when you hit the buy button, with 10 seconds to confirm the trade or try and buy again at a lower price.
I can set limit orders for both buys and sells.
I am very pleased with the service.
I do appreciate that many prefer to make smaller trades for various reasons, and were I looking to trade less than £1000 of stock at a time I would probably look for a free option. I have no experience of these, but would wish to know how they make their money. I'm a firm believer that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Yep. I realised a while back that they were chronically slow with smaller company deals. Ok with the bigger boys and free to buy and sell but three days is very frustrating! I need to switch. Cheers Magstar.
Yes I know what the problem is.
You are using the wrong platform!
Use a decent share buyer...
I use IWeb, they only charge £5 per trade to buy and £5 to sell
It's just what I use and not a recommendation either way. Plenty of other decent platforms are available rather than Trading 212!
Hi all. I started buying into MGC in Feb '21 and topped up a few times, often a slow business. This last trade I tried on Monday with Trading 212 I've just given up on and cancelled. Changed the 10,000 order to 2 x 5000 buy orders instead today. Still nothing. I know T212 are often slow but anyone else having problems?