When a high-flying stock seems out of reach for investors with limited cash, fractional trading can help fulfil that dream of owning a piece of the company — one small portion at a time.
Fractional trading removes that mental roadblock of needing a huge sum of money to invest and makes stocks more accessible to people, Boisvert added. When it comes to selling fractional shares, it's similar to selling a whole share, except investors can put the exact dollar amount they'd like to get from the sale instead of the number of shares, said Boisvert.
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