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Holding individual stocks at Wealthfront

You can hold individual stocks with Wealthfront in the following accounts: 

  • Stock Investing Account
  • S&P 500 Direct Portfolio
  • Nasdaq-100 Direct Portfolio
  • Automated Index Investing Account with US Direct Indexing enabled. However, if you have US Direct Indexing enabled, we'll purchase individual securities, along with completion ETFs, designed to replicate a broad US stock market index fund. Learn more here.

You can also hold large US stocks in any of our Direct Indexing Portfolios or Automated Index Investing Account with US Direct Indexing enabled. Wealthfront isn’t intended for day trading as we don’t guarantee trade execution or timing. Learn more about when we buy and sell.

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