Today I opened an account in etoro, which is the third brokerage I use. I started investing on DEGIRO platform, later got annoyed by the 30% tax on dividends, and created an account on trading212, which I am very happy with! But today I created and funded an account with etoro, in this article I will explain why I want to have 3 brokers, maybe even more in the future and why I don’t think that is a bad idea.

I decided I want to deprecate suggestions feature on digrin.com. I looked into data and it was rarely used. Digrin was sending emails to users (I even forgot about that part). I don’t use the feature myself, and I think it can be even dangerous, to have a feature that sounds like “suggestion for stock buys”, which you often need financial licence to do. And this was automated feature. I am removing it now, but wanted to write down for myself how it worked, because I will definitely forget and one day I might find it interesting.

Youtube suggested a video to me, I found the title interesting to watch at least the first few minutes, but I ended up watching it all. One fact from the video struck me: “Getting rich enough to retire only takes about 10 years“. I told to myself – this doesn’t make sense. I did the calculation a year back and I got 20-30 years of investing. When I did, I was disappointed and rather stopped with those calculations. Video forced me to recalculate again, whether that fact is bullshit or not.

I thought I would look into data of digrin.com – what is the number of registered and active users, how many portfolios and transaction are created daily, etc. To my disappointment I found out I did not have created_at and updated_at timestamps on models, so I can’t view these interesting data in time 🙁 I have only users (thanks Django) with date timestamps. Of course, I just added these timestamps to all models, so maybe in a few months, there might be some interesting patterns.

Keď som pred 4 rokmi začínal s investovaním, pozeral som sa po brokeroch dostupných v Európe a nič som nevedel nájsť. Začínal som s nákupmi za cca 100 eur za obchod, kde ak je poplatok 8 eur, už to moc lákavo nevyzerá. Fio má myslím taký poplatok, Lynx 5 dolárov a Degiro.cz v tej dobe prišla ako jasná voľba (50 centov obchod). Nedávno mi ale degiro začalo strhávať 30% (som Slovák pracujúci v Česku) z dividend miesto 15%, čo už pri veľkosti môjho portfólia nevychádza vôbec dobre a hlavne z dlhodobého hľadiska to nedáva zmysel, keď chcem žiť z dividend. Našiel som ale super brokera, nechápem, že som na neho skôr nenarazil.