Article in Telegraph today: Trading 212 has overtaken Hargreaves Lansdown as the trading site of choice for new investors, research has shown. Boring Money, a research firm, surveyed 6,500 investors and found nearly a quarter who began investing less than a year ago put their cash with Trading 21…

After reading it, I dont think they had anyone proofread or do any fact checks at all!

This IS the Telegraph we are talking about :rofl: Just don’t read any other British news page and expect any better. LOL

It may be interesting to see the T212 user profile by portfolio size, eg the number of clients with a portfolio of less than 2000 usd / eur / gbp, and the number of those with a portfolio of more than 1m or even 10m usd (if any).

I forgot about that poll, although I voted. I meant the official numbers from trading212.

Best we have to go off is this from over 2 months ago: [image] 1,400,000M clients with £2.7B is £1,928 each Split it among the 600,000 daily active users that’s £2,333 each. So certain that the true average for actually active accounts (not just sitting there with one deposit) would be between …

2.7B in assets under administration is a respectable number, but it would be interesting to know how many users have more than $1m or $10m in their accounts. Or they choose other brokers, like IB which has a margin category for clients with more than $200m in the account.

With higher amounts, investors have access to customized services, like personalized and fast client support, private banking and wealth management, and to specialized financial products, that a broker normally don’t have. The appeal of T212 is reduced fees and fractional shares, for deep pockets i…

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trader787 April 24, 2021, 9:09pm 5

you mean just regular users? a poll was done here a while ago…you said 10 million dollars right? personally I don’t believe anyone with 10 million dollars would be using T212, could be wrong, speak up now if you are out there.

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