Fidelity Investments Reviews

I had a terrible experience with fidelity and their customer service. Long story short.. the New York State Child Support Department accidentally levied my account and sent notice to fidelity. I called fidelity and they notified that nothing was going to happen with my money after me asking multiple times for reassurance. 3 weeks later I get a notification that my positions were closed on my BEST stocks. I called again, dealt with people who tried to rush me of the phone to just be directed to their law and operations office, which I had to wait for a returned phone call. I received my return call and I spoke with an absurd and extremely rude representative by the name of Krissa. She told me “it was a courtesy that she was even calling me back and wasn’t obligated to do so.” She even told me that they didn’t even need to notify me that New York State was placing a levy!!! What??????!!! A courtesy?? After investing thousands with them it’s a courtesy that they call me about someone trying to take money out of my account when it’s their fiduciary responsibility to protect my assets and they failed to do so and now I’m waiting 3 weeks later for money still from New York State!!! I was just about to transfer $25,000 from Robinhood to them, but now I’m looking to cancel my account with fidelity and also report them to the Better Business Bureau.

Not only has it happened numerous times there’s always a delay when you want to purchase stock as soon as the bell rings. A lot of other times you buy stock and you literally typing a specific amount for a limit purchase yet without your permission you end up paying more!!! I don’t understand what the point is of putting in a limited purchase amount per share if it’s just gonna be disregarded!?!?!? Not everyone is an expert in trading so perhaps they should explain why they are allowed to do this instead of just doing it and expecting us to ask accept it with no explanation. There’s a lot of other times when it just fails and I simply can’t get log back in for 5 to 10 minutes most of the time but other times its inaccessible for 30 mins to an hour. One instance this year it was down for 3 days. Again it would’ve been nice had they sent an email out to their customers to let us know that their operating system was completely in operable instead no one sent any notification and we just had to wait and wait and wait. So I hope that never happens again because I know I received 3 good faith violations during that 3 day period resulting in a suspension of certain privileges...all because I couldn’t see any of my normal reminders or warnings!

I signed up for Fidelity a few months ago. Everything seemed to be working well at first. Then, I realized that over $500 had been taken out of my account as I was trading, claiming that it was taxes that were being withheld. I have never had this happen on any of the other apps I use (Webull, Robinhood, Ameritrade, etc.). So I called Fidelity. The person whom I first spoke with said that I just needed to fill out a tax form and then the money would be placed back in my account. He then sent me the tax form. I filled it out and uploaded it to my account. After about 10 days of not seeing the money placed back in my account, I called again. This time, the representative said that the first person whom I spoke with was not correct. The money cannot be placed back in my account. And in order to get the money back, I would need to go through the work of retrieving it from the government when I do my taxes next time. So just to warn people, if you are going to use Fidelity, realize that if you download the mobile app and link it to your bank account, this may very well happen to you. And there is no warning or notification that you even need to fill out this tax form. So I would personally use one of the other well known apps, which all seem to be immune to this problem. Or, if you do create a Fidelity account, make sure to figure out how to get their tax form and upload it to avoid this mess.

Two months in a row I have waited for a check to clear my checking account. When my account shows the balance available, I pay my bills, only to get a flood of emails from Fidelity that these payments were not sent through due to insufficient funds in the account. Meanwhile, the funds are clearly showing in the account as available balance. It’s infuriating. I then have to keep track of each individual payment to watch and see whether the payee will resubmit the payment automatically after a couple of days. Some accounts do and some don’t. But I don’t dare pay again in case the auto re-submission is also pending. I am also charged fees on some account. I don’t know what the deal is with showing funds as available, then declining payments; but the programming needs to be adjusted to show checks in pending status until the are truly cleared (just like every other bank I work with. I have never had this problem with another bank. This literally causes me weeks of continual frustration before it is resolved. Please change something so whatever restriction on allowing funds to be used is clearly indicated to the account balance owner.

Fidelity chart issue :

I do like the fidelity IOS app, the Information is comprehensive and effective to an extent. However, when it comes to the deciphering chart on iOS fidelity app, it is frustrating and outright exasperating. Problem with the chart is , data, it is not spread out at a glance, it is slow, and needs to be colorful. For example when the stock is down amber color is preferred amongst stock traders, green when stock price is rising. Recommendation is Please update the chart section. In addition, FaceTime login also seems to be lagging comparable to the other platform (Robinhood). As a new young investors, iPhone apps is highly preferred and is always with us. Thus, making the fidelity app faster and easy to read chart highly recommended. Lastly, when transferring money to fidelity brokerage account, there is no way knowing when exactly the money will be available. Only expects indication is (2-4 days). Which often takes more days. Exact available date for transfer would be exceptional . It is annoying and having to check account weather the money has arrived or not . In the transfer section adding a status of transfer and exact available date update would be highly appreciated. Please fix aforementioned issues next update . Thanks .

I am satisfied with fidelity as a bank and the interface of FidelityInvestments is clean and navigable, but there are things that need to be changed. For one, I’m unable to see a single performance chart for any security. No matter the ticker or time horizon, I get the message “chart not available for this security” every single time without exception. This seems like a pretty glaring problem for an investment app where I’m curious about past performance. Right now I have to switch back and forth between fidelity and my Apple stocks app to find information which is a bit bothersome. Also, every time I exit out of a security’s page from the investments tab, the whole page reloads and brings me back up to the top. I assume this is to keep price information as current as possible, but it just makes navigation much slower if I want to check more than one security without scrolling through all my investments again. Again, I’m happy with the financial side of things, but these issues should be fixed.

Its one of the best I have come across so far but it has its flaws as well. First and most importantly theres no after-hours quoting on FidelityInvestments . Their IT department disregarded the most important feature? Anyways, also you have to sign a lot of paperwork to start trading normally. Any type of trade needs to be applied for and authorized pretty much. Many leveraged ETF's are not available. Pre-markets orders start from 7am whereas even a crappy online brokerage running from garage such as Webull allows 4am trading. Last but not least it would be nice of they gave credit in certain amount to start trading right away when you make a deposit.
What I do like about Fidelity is that I know my money is safe with them and they have live customer service although sometimes you have to wait a lot to talk to a representatives. Still better than the crappy customer service Webull ( over-messaging ) or Ameritrade ( rude) or Interactive Brokers ( INDIA outsourced) provided. FidelityInvestments is great with customized news feed and detailed info of your stocks. The HEAT MAP is probably the best feature! I love it! The streaming is also smooth. Oh, I have to say the execution of the trades are FLAWLESS! The best trade executions I have seen so far. Like I said in the beginning one of the best brokerages out there.

As a young investor my first stock trading app was RH. After some fickle things happened earlier this year I made the swap to Fidelity. I do miss RH’s ease of navigating around, but Fidelity came out with their Beta app on iPhone, and it’s pretty good so far for basic buy/selling etc. I can’t say for certain about anything else because I don’t do anything else other than buy/hold/sell. Some things that I would love to see for iPhone is an increase in customizing widgets from Fidelity. I’m given the option to either watch the top market makers or my overall balance for an account . One thing that I enjoyed about RH is they have widgets to watch specific markers from your watchlist or positions that you specifically hold. It’d be nice to be able to casually glance to see how X position is doing without needing to open the entire app. To lastly echo sentiment i’ve heard from other people, an update in the charting to make it more mainstream would also be appreciated. Overall moving in a great direction!

Overall, FidelityInvestments is useful and intuitive. Only problem is some bugs and annoying irrelevant notifications.

Bug: The alerts function used to work great but is now broken. I can’t see or manage the alerts I have set. They seem to fire fine, but I don’t know what alerts I have active, so I end up putting them in multiple times to ensure they exist.

Irrelevant notification every sing time I use FidelityInvestments : I get a push notification that FidelityInvestments has logged out after 15 min of inactivity. I don’t need my phone or watch to buzz and interrupt me to tell me that. If I go to use FidelityInvestments again after a long pause, THEN show me a message that I have been logged out. But don’t bother me with an alert 15 min after every time I use FidelityInvestments . Makes Fidelity alerts less meaningful — and I want to keep these turned on to be alerted of stock movements.

FidelityInvestments has worked fine for years. Now, numbers don’t match. For example, my daily change in summary says I am down a couple hundred bucks for the day, but the positions summary says I’m up for the day. Which daily gain/loss is correct? Some positions, with the same close value on FidelityInvestments versus desktop version, show different daily performance values. Which is correct? Desktop or app? I called support and they told me to just focus on current value to determine if my portfolio has increased or decreased. What is this 1982 and I need to keep a ledger of my positions? Really??? Don’t provide bells and whistles if the numbers are not correct? Don’t tell me it depends where there are pulling the information from. Pick one and stick with it. If I can’t trust a financial company to provide correct numbers, what good are they? Correct numbers is their job and telling me to do the math to track my portfolio is unacceptable in 2020.

I just chose Fidelity to roll my 401k over from a previous employer and they made everything every easy. There’s even a Fidelity Banking center 10 minutes away from where I live so getting to them were easy. I currently am invested in their Fidelity GO option because I don’t have $25k for it to be managed by a broker. Their app is easy to use and they are just a phone call away. You can also deposit your funds into their account via their website or via banking center. I choose them because my some of my previous employers used them for a 401k account and they’ve always been very helpful. However, when it comes to the tools of day trading they lack in this area because they don’t provide you with a detailed chart like td ameritrade but that fine because I don’t say trade with fidelity.

I haven’t found a flaw in FidelityInvestments yet and the results have been positive so I have nothing to complain about. Keep up the good job!

First and foremost I can easily buy and sell shares of stocks using the Fidelity platform and now there is no charge to trade . I also appreciate whatever money that is on hold waiting to be invested is automatically placed in an interest earning account that is significantly higher than what I can receive from my regular savings account in my bank . Everything has been very easy and clear from trading to moving money into my brokerage accounts with Fidelity. I use my Fidelity credit card frequently because 2% of that amount automatically goes right into my brokerage accounts at Fidelity per my instructions . There is always personal assistance I can speak to directly if I desire to do so . And lastly there are all kinds of webinars to further my knowledge about trading in general that I can take whenever I have the time to do so. I trust this platform and consider it excellent in executing my trades . I am really a beginner in my second year of trading myself and I love it .

I loved FidelityInvestments. I only needed the deposit feature and being able to check my balance now and then. I deposited my checks twice a month. Now in the last few months it is hit and miss when I can get the deposit to go through. No different internet and no different phone. Same check look also. Something updated and now I have to attempt the checks to be updated at least a dozen times sometimes waiting till the next day because I don’t have the time to sit there. My checks are handwritten and the closest fidelity is not close. So I’m stuck begging it to not error on the picture and then go through and accept the deposit. Thankfully I only have to do this twice a month. I like the banking and the interest for my account which I’m not sure is worth the hassle of the deposits and no close bank to run it to when I don’t have the time to keep trying hoping it will accept it. :(

I have tried many other Investment companies over the last 20 plus years for quality research information. I ALWAYS go back to Fidelity Investments for my research on companies, businesses and industries. Fidelity puts technology at the forefront in their business (I know from my own personal experiences with Fidelity over the years). Fidelity is ALWAYS “that” company to spearhead their business with the new advancing technologies. Funny side note...I remember working at Fidelity a LONG TIME AGO when they were one of the first companies using email for their customer accounts before any other investment companies had heard or thought of implementing that new technology. I completely trust the research information you can find on the website or with a customer service agent. I currently like to attend Fidelity’s financial webinars like socially responsible investing to options. The website is a massive resource for those who are looking...

Fidelity fully understood UI visual flow when building this application. For me it seems that their design team also figured in swipe movement [finger] to screen. Most other financial institutions who offer investment mobility focuses on desktop to keyboard similarity rather than small screen finger gestures. Why is this a problem: hassle work flow. What’s visually on the screen that’s important, swiping/scrolling trying get to what I/We need can cost us profits or make us money. I also like Fidelity makes explanation notes available on current screen rather taking me to URL which creates navigational confusion.

Everything I wrote above keeps me interested coming back to FidelityInvestments rather using other apps which over simplifies and take tools away. So I am getting best of everything with Fidelity and I do like some separation with FidelityGo. Quick view conduct business and done. Again most important transactions are on screen with less need for constant finger play.

Before opening a brokerage account and giving up your personal information, it’s important to do your research to find out what your looking for. Fidelity is a popular choice for 401Ks, IRAs, and other retirement accounts. And thus, their platform is suited for that. Fidelity is best for the long term investor: one who does fundamental and technical analysis, is in tune with current economic and political implications, and reads analyst reports. It’s for the investor who has the big picture. If you’re looking to be an active trader, choose a different platform. What I will say about trading, however, is that long-term investing will help you to be an amazing trader. Being able to hold your positions during corrections and recessions will build the stomach needed to become a successful trader. If you’re looking for a bank for a checking or savings account you’re better off at a regular bank like Chase, BOA, or TD. But if you’re interested in saving or investing for the long term, Fidelity is the answer.

Slow response time! I have voice verification and they even can tell me who I am when I call, but the system didn’t recognize my apple phone update, so they locked out my account and made me physically drive to a branch office and present my ID, before they would unlock my mobile phone access spent 1/2 hour on the phone with two separate call centers then another our driving to and from their office presenting my drivers license to prove who I was. They didn’t accept my correctly answered security questions, I am a doctor and had to get this fixed during my busy day of patients. Not only this but it’s earnings season and I have over two million fully invested in the market with fidelity and took losses over $20,000 before they would simply unlock my access to trade. The totally absurd thing about their system is they said they would be happy to place a trade for me by telephone WITHOUT verifying my ID but would not unlock the phone I have been using for FOR weekly and daily trades over two years, in order to do the trades myself.

Every representative of Fidelity that I have ever had the privilege of being helped by has been very friendly, very willing to explain, help, and see to it that I understand the answer that is given me to the question I have asked. Bottom line, the Representatives of Fidelity are honorable, class act employees. Also, even though I read little of it, a library of helps for Fidelity clients is sent out several times a month. I am new at all of this and what I have written is likely very elementary to the Giants who regularly attend this field of knowledge. I'm just very thankful to have been advised to join what to me seems to be a solid and trustworthy business organization that believes that doing right makes right and ends right. Leadership, in my view is often the real difference between success and failure; leadership is most often the whole difference. So, there must be great leadership running Fidelity. Again, at least in my view, leadership is the difference. Especially when God is intentionally and purposefully at the Top in the hearts and minds of those at the helm! Hopefully, that's the case at Fidelity.

God bless!!!

Tino Huggins

I have been a very happy Fidelity customer for 35 years. I tried the big brokerage companies that offer personal service. What did I find out? They grew rich and I barely broke even, even in booming markets. Fidelity gives me the tools and the information I need to make the best financial decisions. My money has grown exponentially so that I can withdraw funds to pay big bills and still see huge gains to my portfolio. It isn’t rocket science. Research the highest yielding funds over the long and short term at the risk level you are comfortable with. Fidelity’s research is sooo darn easy that I can find and print off the research in minutes. I rebalance my funds, drop the dogs, invest in some new winners. It really is that easy. Need money transferred to your bank account? Click, click, you are done. Fees are extremely low too. Need help? Call the 800 number and their very knowledgeable Representatives will assist you quickly and cheerfully. Now I am the one making the money, not my broker. I have taught all of my children to invest with Fidelity and they are light years ahead of their peers financially.

I have been a customer for many years and am very close to changing to another firm. Every time the change there website I have to call customer service and spend an hour sorting out why it isn’t working. The last time was when I was using an app that did not work with my account anymore. They said the change had taken effect a year before but someone in IT decided to lock out all the non conforming accounts. They did not alert the users or the representatives that I called who waisted over an hour trying to log me in.
Then today I was traveling and got on my iPad and was told that I needed change my password and that I could only do this on my desk top. I tried to call customer service and was informed that it be approximately 30 minutes to talk with someone. Have to catch my plane so I guess I will not accomplish what I need to today. Why don’t you leave what is working alone until you can get apps launched that actually work.

I needed to add my second last (given) name to my account to link my bank account and the woman at the help desk on the phone told me I could not update my name online and had to go to a branch to do it. She gave me some ridiculous explanation that made no sense, saying that its possible to update your married name online but not your given name. This was very annoying, and I later found out incorrect. When I went to the branch the woman there was very helpful and informed me that it’s actually slower to update it at the branch than online, making the inconvenience of having to go to the branch not only unnecessary, but detrimental to my goal of making a 2017 contribution before April 17. Luckily, the lady at the branch was extremely helpful and expedited my name update and then followed up with me when it went through in a couple hours. Please train your help phone staff as well as your in branch staff.

This release leaves much to be desired for the active trader. It's fine for those who hold long and strong, but for swing and daytraders it's functionality is rudimentary at best.

Fidelity really needs to put out a mobile version of their desktop Active Trader Pro software, which in itself is quite cumbersome.

This mobile app lacks any serious charting functions, and what they call "advanced charts" are extremely limited in any sort of analytic tools, and don't even update in real time.

Anybody planning on using Fidelity's very stable platform for active trading is therefore forced to use third-party applications to do the actual charting and everyday work required of the successful trader. I personally use TD Ameritrade's Think or Swim mobile application for charting across multiple time frames, and use FidelityInvestments to execute trades.

In addition, it is impossible to place conditional orders within FidelityInvestments, which is ridiculous. In other words, one cannot place both a stop loss and sell limit order on the same security/option. This severely limits the speed at which one can execute trades.

Seems like most of the other online brokerage houses have apps much more sophisticated when it comes to charting and chart analysis. FidelityInvestments only allows one lower analysis tool at a time, and the choices of tools are EXTREMELY limited.

IMO, fidelity is falling way behind in regards to the sophistication of their mobile applications.

Have been with Fidelity for over forty years.
We started investing when we had our first two thousand dollars to get started.
We were very frugal and managed to get our savings increased until we have enough money to buy stocks. From then on, we patiently kept investing, spent less on material things and it still amazes us how we could have become this rich. Fidelity has been very good to us. All the personnel we dealt with were very knowledgeable, kind and treated us kindly even we never look like millionaires. I have recommended Fidelity time and time again to those who are willing to listen. I have always gone to your seminars. At one time I drove all the way to Dallas to listen to Mr Ned Johnson so I can meet him personally. Never got a chance to talk to him to let him know how I think highly of the campany.

Good day to you.
Since establishing
My Individual Retirement Account with Fidelity Investments seven months ago I have experienced the highest quality service overall.
The personnel, face-to-face at the Park Avenue, NYC location is very professional, knowledgeable, clear and helpful.
The personnel over-the-phone, is also quite helpful in answering all questions I have as well as helping Me to favorably resolve My financial matters.
Overall, I am very pleased to transact business with and have My finances grow and prosper with Fidelity which insures that I, as a person/client, am highly respected and valued.
In My experience with various financial companies over the decades I must say, very low overall quality service is commonplace these days, I will even say that good customer service is absent. Clientele is an afterthought, and increasing profits is their singular concern which attributes to such deplorable service.
Fidelity Investments outshines other companies because, in My experience, they maintain each person/client as the singular priority, thereby superb, long term profitability is assured.
I am very pleased that for the many decades ahead, Fidelity is My choice for the financial advice and prosperity of Me with My wife and Our family.
For all of your excellent service
I thank you
Fidelity Investments.

Ray Nice Cruz
Bronx, NY

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Hello,
Our workplace Fidelity Representative, at Atrius Health in Needham, is wonderful in every way imaginable. His name is Dan Shea, our retirement specialist. I have booked numerous appointments with him over the years to discuss my retirement savings. Dan is a true professional and very well informed about the economy and its impact on the stock market, taking the time to answer targeted questions with a smile. He does not hesitate to go above-and-beyond to provide additional information based on my concerns. That day, instead of keeping my 4:00 pm appointment, I stopped by to ask him if I could come earlier to see him, to avoid traffic going north that Friday night. He was very understanding and accommodated my request on the spot. In closing, I hope that Fidelity provides him with an ‘extra special bonus’ this year for his dedication and devotion to the company and to the clients he joyfully serves.

I rarely write reviews but whenever I deal with Fidelity, I am always so happy with their service that I felt compelled to do so. I’ve been investing with Fidelity for 6 years in various capacities (Brokerage, Cash Management, 401K, Roth IRA) and can confidently say I have never had a bad experience with them. Their app and website and very easy to navigate and filled with tons of useful information. When I have had to call their customer service for various questions, I have been blown away. Their customer service agents are the BEST that I have ever dealt with. They are very professional, knowledgeable, and personable no matter what department you talk to. I have recommended Fidelity to all of my close friends and family and will continue to do so since that are that amazing of a company. Keep up the amazing work!