Fractional Shares
TradersPost supports trading in fractional share quantities with brokers that support it. The following brokers support fractional trading:
You can trade fractional shares by entering a fractional quantity with a decimal or by entering a dollar amount to buy and the fractional quantity will be calculated for you.
Here are some notes on fractional trading behavior to consider when trading fractional shares:
- Fractional buy and sell orders must be simple good for day market orders
- Fractional orders cannot have stop loss or take profits.
- Fractional orders cannot be short.
- Fractional quantities will be rounded down to the number of decimal places the broker supports.
If you want to use fractional shares in your automated strategy subscriptions, you just need to check the
Use fractional quantity checkbox in your strategy subscription.
Use fractional quantities in your strategy subscriptions.
Now when order quantities are calculated, we will not round them to whole numbers and will instead round the quantity to the number of decimal places supported by the broker.
Last modified 3mo ago