I appreciate the intent behind the Pie feature—it’s useful for long-term investing and maintaining allocation strategies. However, its current implementation is overly rigid and at times, counterproductive.
Here are a few key limitations that reduce its usability:
- Lack of Order Flexibility: It’s frustrating that I can’t set automated limit or stop sell orders for stocks within a Pie. To do so, I have to export the stock out of the Pie, which takes time and means its not as liquid if I need to sell something quickly.
- No Dynamic Interaction with Orders: If I place a sell order for part of a holding outside a pie (e.g., 10 shares), I can’t move the remaining shares (also 10) into a Pie because there is a sell order on the other 10. This makes no sense, and the kind of friction complicates basic portfolio management.
- Constant “Unbalanced” Warnings: The Pie constantly warns about imbalance even when I deliberately want to hold different weights or let certain assets drift. This rigid enforcement becomes noise rather than helpful guidance.
Suggestion:
Either significantly improve the Pie’s flexibility (e.g., allowing limit orders, tolerating weight drift, enabling partial movement of stocks) or introduce a separate feature—like a lightweight “Group” container—so users can organize stocks without being locked into auto-balancing or trade restrictions.
Right now, the Pie feature feels more like a constraint than a tool. I hope Trading 212 considers these improvements to support both active and passive investors more effectively.