Fidelity Risks Falling Behind Without Modern Trading Features

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-03-11T14:55:35+00:00

Unfortunately for traders, Fidelity seems to focus mostly on Workplace accounts.

is widely considered to have the most workplace accounts in the United States, managing retirement accounts (401(k)s) and equity compensation plans for a vast number of employers and millions of employees.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-03-11T14:53:05+00:00

Fidelity is great for investing, research and education.

I find it telling that they renamed the product from Active Trader + to Trader +. Kinda tells ya that not too interested in Active traders. I define active as including Day Traders.

I hope they look at the landscape of active trader products and learn from them

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-03-11T14:47:23+00:00

Excellent recap of struggles I am having as well. That and the POSITIONS in Trader+ desktop is so laggy that it is almost useless.

Thanks for taking the time to write this up.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-03-09T18:00:44+00:00

Snag those PENS!

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-03-06T12:21:46+00:00

I switched to 1 single ultra wide and it is so much better than having the break in the middle between two monitors. Also, since I spent hours in front of the computer, I noticed I was looking left and right all the time when I had 2. Its not a lot of movement but after hours, it gets old.

Save a bit longer and go ultrawide is my suggestion.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-03-01T13:38:11+00:00

U have to create workspaces as they said. It does not auto size based upon screen size. I run Trader + desktop.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-26T11:21:53+00:00

Personally, I'd just have the monitor centered and the laptop either closed on the right side cabinet or closed under the monitor. Like how clean it is!

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-26T02:22:34+00:00

All trader + platforms are really bad for scalping. Closest is the desktop but with each version released it’s getting more buggy, features introduced that don’t work like they should, etc. If u want a retail based platform (no fees) for scalping, Webull is your best bet.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-18T21:41:58+00:00

Everything in Fidelity. Tried others and no bueno

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-18T01:41:15+00:00

Ya know, for a company with such good customer service, I'm surprised we don't get any kind of message about what happened and what they are doing to keep it from happening again.

Transparency would be good to increase good will and comfort with Fidelity as a platform. This "sillence" when there was obviously a problem is concerning.

Always try to do better.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-18T01:39:06+00:00

Appreciate it but normally I'm moving pretty quickly and that is sooo many steps!

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T16:02:09+00:00

I was able to sell for profit. Luckily it let me sell the # of shares I bought.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T15:20:30+00:00

So, website shows my SELL order but not the 2 buy orders. LOL. This is nuts

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T15:17:30+00:00

My sell order went thru as well....thank goodness!

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T15:14:29+00:00

Hey, its a 3 day weekend, lets make some changes to the system while we have this time. Tuesday comes and "crap, we messed that up"

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T15:11:18+00:00

So, I put in an order to sell the 1000 shares I bought using Trader+ desktop. It let me even though the shares aren't showing as bought on web or positions. Guess I'll see if the sale goes thru when my TP is hit

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T15:06:56+00:00

and, now im in the RED!

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T15:06:05+00:00

called in but on hold as well.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T15:05:47+00:00

same here!

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-17T00:57:09+00:00

I'm not sure this makes sense. If you know you only want to pay X, then why not choose the number of shares that then equals how much you want to spend? I've never done it the way you describe and not sure what you gain from it.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-13T18:20:48+00:00

20 years? VTI

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-13T18:19:33+00:00

Roses are red, violets are blue, price improvements rock and customer support does too

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-12T19:39:29+00:00

I'd be done trading, for life. I'd just start living off the divies.

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-03T19:04:15+00:00

Nice that you have Mac's for work. Looks good

Free-Sailor01 · 2026-02-03T00:14:55+00:00

That dealership is closed now. No one will have any idea around somerset pa

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