Just sharing with you some good news from Gotrade. For those who don’t know, Gotrade is the platform that I use to purchase US and foreign stocks. I wrote about them here: Gotrade: How to Deposit Funds from the Philippines
Well, since that time, they have been improving the app and have been releasing updates.
One of the updates that they have released is the Filipinos can now use GCASH to deposit or cash into the app. Fees though for GCash is at 3%. I hope that Gotrade will be able to strike a good deal with GCash and lower the fees.
Although this will be very convenient for most of us since most of us have GCash.
Another new feature that they introduced is the Top Movers feature. Now, you will be able to see the stocks that are the top movers. No need to search through each stock one by one (although this seemingly tedious activity relaxes me… haha!). I love window shopping for stocks.
So that’s it, folks. Start stock trading using Gotrade now and use my invitation code so that you can get inside the app.
Use this invitation code so you can use Gotrade! It’s by invitation only 🙂
It’s been a few weeks since I mentioned that I am testing out this new Stock Trading platform where your can purchase US and Foreign Stocks. I’ve been wanting to purchase US Stocks directly, but the other platforms don’t offer buying fractional shares to non-US residents. Gotrade is the only platform that I saw that offers non-US residents to trade fractional shares. You can dowload it now from the App Store or Google Playstore.
Use this invitation code so you can use Gotrade! It’s by invitation only 🙂
What are fractional shares?
Let’s say you want to buy Tesla Stocks. A Tesla Stock, let’s say, is around $600 per share. So in order for you to buy a Tesla stock, you need to have $600 to purchase and start trading. For Gotrade, if you don’t have that amount yet, you can still buy fractional shares of Tesla.
For Filipino users, I get this question in my blog and social media accounts when I posted about Gotrade.
How do I fund my Gotrade account?
Right now, these are the options: UnionBank, BPI or International Wire Transfer (deposit in USD).
You can either deposit instantly (just takes minutes) or you can wait for three days before funds are deposited.
For instant deposits, you can deposit up to USD1,000 at any one time instantly. The difference is that in Instant deposits, Gotrade’s clearing broker will credit your deposits immediately into your Gotrade account. They will advance the funds for you.
In order to see how much you can instantly deposit, tap on the “Instant deposit to Gotrade” option on the funding screen. The amount you see there is the outstanding limit available to you right now. It will be replenished to USD1,000 again once all your deposits reach the US – 3 business days after your last instant deposit.
Please see also that UnionBank and BPI have their respective fees.
To see your funding activity, you can go to this part of your app. You can see your total deposits, total withdrawals and net deposits to Gotrade.
So far, it’s so fun using Gotrade. By the way, the markets open at 9:30 pm since they are following the time markets are open in the US. They close at 4:30am.
Once you have funds in your Gotrade account, you can proceed to buying shares. I’ll discuss that in another article!
Again, here is my invitation code that I want to share with you: 458377. Just download the app in Google Playstore or Apple App Store.
Use this invitation code so you can use Gotrade! It’s by invitation only 🙂
