General

The Withdrawal Amount is the amount of money that you can transfer or withdraw from your stock account at any given time. You can’t withdraw funds from the Stocks account prior to settlement. For most stock trades, settlement takes two business days after the sell date, and the Withdrawal Amount will update automatically once the trade has settled. Cash balance refers to the amount of money that an investor has available to purchase securities. Funds not yet settled are not available for transfer or withdrawal, but may be included in your current cash balance.

Yes, shares can be transferred outwards, if going to an ACAT eligible institution. Please speak to our customer support representative if you require the forms to proceed with a Share Transfer. Please speak first to your existing broker if you want to transfer stocks into your Tradu stock account and our customer support team can then assist you with the relevant information they require.

Pattern Day Trader (PDT) protection is a feature that help traders avoid violating the PDT rule. The PDT rule is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation that requires traders to maintain a minimum equity balance of $25,000 in their account if they execute four or more day trades within a five-business-day period. PDT protection will automatically prevent traders from placing day trades if they are at risk of violating the rule. The current number of day trades that have been made in the last 5 trading days (inclusive of today) is visible in the Summary section of your Portfolio.

We will supports trading symbols which have recently begun trading publicly on major exchanges such as the NYSE and NASDAQ.

• We will only be able to accept limit orders prior to the security’s first trade on the exchange
• Once an IPO begins trading on an exchange, market orders are accepted

In order to prevent Alpaca Brokerage Account customers from unintentionally being designated, the Alpaca Trading platform checks the PDT rule condition every time an order is submitted from a customer. If the order could potentially result in the account being flagged as a PDT, the order is rejected.

UK account holders will be charged £0.01 per share with a minimum commission of £1 per trade. Please check our Rate card for more information on the latest rates. A commission fee is charged at the time of executing an order. For traders with USD denominated accounts, the SEC and FINRA charge a Trading Activity Fee at the time of sale. The SEC charges $8.00 for every $1,000,000 (or $0.000008 per dollar), and FINRA charges $145 for every 1,000,000 shares (or $0.000145 per share) sold up to a maximum of $7.27 per trade. The relevant regulatory fees imposed by the SEC or FINRA will be debited directly from your account. *USD denominated accounts are currently not available for UK clients.

When you invest in Apple and other US shares through us, you pay just £0.01 per share with a £1 minimum commission per trade.

Alpaca Securities LLC is a US-based broker-dealer that provides stock trading and other financial services. It is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), and executes all trades transmitted by Tradu. All Stock clients are required to consent to the Terms of Business for Alpaca who are responsible for the execution and custody of your stock trading.

The decision is yours. Listed stocks represent direct ownership of shares in a company. When you buy listed stocks, you become a shareholder and have voting rights, which means you can participate in decisions about the company’s future. You are also entitled to receive dividends, which are a portion of the company’s profits that are distributed to shareholders. CFDs (Contracts for Difference), on the other hand, are derivatives that track the price of an underlying asset, such as a stock.  You do not receive any entitlements but are able to utilize leverage to gain more market exposure and are not restricted by any Pattern day trader rules, so can enter and exit the market as many times as you would like during the stock trading hours.

Yes, shares can be transferred in and out between registered brokers. Please contact our support staff who can assist you with your preferred transfer method.

Yes. All Stock CFDs are micronized, and the trading of 1 CFD contract is in increments of 0.1 Shares. For listed stocks, fractional share trading and/or notional volume trading is available on the majority of our offering. You can view if an instrument is able to be fractionalized or not on the trading ticket in the Stocks platform.

Yes, pre-market trading is available on a limited number of stocks.

Tradu offers 8.000 listed stocks on 1:1 leverage, and 3.000+ Stocks CFDs on up to 1:5 leverage. Learn more about trading stocks.

Yes. Tradu offers both listed stocks, as well as leveraged stocks CFDs, all from a single app. Learn more about investing in stocks.