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I’ve been using DEGIRO for about 8 weeks now, due to its very low fees, for which I cannot fault it. However, I have maintained my Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) Share Trading Account and I’m glad I did. • Unable to trade in some top UK Stocks e.g. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT – FTSE100); Virgin Money UK (VMUK – FTSE250); Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (EWI – FTSE250) for some unknown reason. Can you throw any light on this? • Limit Orders: cannot set Sell Orders for greater than 20% of current Sell Price and cannot set Buy Orders for less than 20% of current Buy Price. Of course, in this current volatile market climate, with good news about vaccines, etc. and bad news about lockdowns, etc. coming out unexpectedly, the 20% limit isn’t appropriate i.e. it’s too low. One of my Stockholdings shot up significantly more than 20% on 9th November 2020 and caught me out because I’d set a Sell Order at the 20% limit. I’m sure there were many similar instances for other DEGIRO clients. (These limits are referred to as upper bounds and lower bounds by DEGIRO). • When you want to place a manual trade, DEGIRO doesn’t give you the opportunity to accept a Buy or Sell ‘Quote’ Price. Once you click Confirm, the manual order is placed at ‘Market’ Price, so you don’t get an opportunity to review the Price you’re getting. This is especially frustrating with volatile Stocks where the Price fluctuates a lot. • When you set a Limit Order to Buy or Sell, DEGIRO invariably gives you exactly the Price you have set. In other words, you never, in my experience, get a slightly better Buy or Sell Price. This is not the case with HL. • The ‘Market’ Buy or Sell Prices offered by DEGIRO are often less than advantageous than those offered by HL, for example. In one instance I recall it was significantly so. So much so that even with DEGIRO’s low fees, it would have been better to place the trade with HL with its higher fees.