Intro
Trading 212 has a user-friendly web trading platform with great features, like a safe two-step login or easy search. On the negative side, the platform is not customizable.
Trading 212 has its own in-house developed web trading platform. It is available in quite a few languages:
| English | German | Dutch | Spanish | French |
| Italian | Polish | Russian | Romanian | Chinese |
Look and feel
The Trading 212 web trading platform is well designed and user-friendly. You will find it very easy to use even if you have relatively little trading experience. One drawback is that the platform is not customizable at all.
Login and security
Trading 212 offers two-step authentication for login. You can set it up through a third-party authenticator app such as Google Authenticator.
Search functions
Trading 212's search functions work well. You can easily search by typing the name of the product or by browsing pre-defined categories such as stocks or indexes.
Placing orders
CFD and Invest accounts offer different order types and order time limits:
| CFD account | Invest/ISA accounts | |
|---|---|---|
| Market | Yes | Yes |
| Limit | Yes | Yes |
| Stop | Yes | Yes |
| Stop limit | No | Yes |
| OCO | Yes | No |
If you are not familiar with the basic order types, read this overview.
If you click to 'buy' or 'sell' an asset, you will be shown a trade ticket. This is very useful as it shows the important details of your order, like margin, swap rates, or stamp duty in the case of UK real stocks.
Alerts and notifications
You can set price alerts on the platform. To do this, just select the asset and click the 'Alert' icon.
Portfolio and fee reports
Trading 212 has clear portfolio and fee reports. You can access them by clicking your username and then selecting 'Report'. You can check your profit/loss, interest (swap points) charged or earned, or your cash balance, among other information. However, we didn't find a way to export these reports.
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