Updated on Apr 3, 2025: Tired of watching your favorite companies soar while high stock prices have you stuck on the sidelines? Real-time fractional shares are now live at Questrade! Fractional shares, also known as partial shares, let you buy a portion of a single share of stock. Instead of needing thousands of dollars to buy a single share of a high-priced company like Apple or Google, you can invest as little as $1 – making investing accessible to everyone. When you buy a fractional shares, Questrade purchases the necessary portion of a share on your behalf. Your account will reflect your ownership percentage of the whole share. Dividends are paid proportionally to your ownership, and you can buy or sell your fractional shares just like whole shares. You are able to buy and sell fractional shares in any Questrade account type.

Updated on Feb 10, 2025: You can now trade US and Canadian stocks and ETFs commission-free in Questrade self-directed account. And you can trade options with on ticket charge and just $0.99/contract. This is a really good news. I assume that Questrade may has lost many clients to other commission-free brokerage platform in the past few years.
Updated on Dec 19, 2023: If you want to open a new Questrade self-directed or a new Questwealth account, please email us:
canadianrewards@gmail.com for our referral code. You will receive $50 bonus with this code.
You can input this referral code as "Offer code" during the online application process. Then you need to fill the online forms and upload the required documents for ID verification purpose. The entire process can be completed online. Once your account is open, you need to initiate an account transfer or transfer funds ($1000 fund is required to earn the
$50 bonus). Questrade offers ten different ways to fund your account (
click here). The method I like is online banking bill payment (the same way that you pay your utility bills with online banking bill payment).
Questrade is one of my favorite Canadian online trading platforms. I have my Self-directed Investing Account at Questrade. Questrade opened its doors in 1999 and it is one of Canada's fastest growing online brokerages. Questrade is based in Toronto, Canada. They support all types of accounts : TFSA, RRSP, Margin, RRIF, LIRA etc.