Creating a Pie helps you build and manage your own mix of investments in a simple way. You can build your own from scratch, replicate ready-made pies from our third-party providers, or portfolios shared by the Trading 212 community.
Diversification can help spread risk, but it does not guarantee returns or protect you from loss. The value of your investments can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you invest.
To start, tap + Create a pie in the Investments section of your account.
Discover pies
You'll land on a discovery screen where you can explore existing pies or jump straight into creating your own.
- Create a custom pie: build your own portfolio from scratch, choosing from our full range of stocks and ETFs.
- Search: find a specific Social or Model pie by name.
- Browse by category: explore curated lists of Social and Model Pies.
Tapping a pie opens its details page, where you can review its holdings and add it to your account.
Custom Pies – Build Your Own Portfolio
Custom Pies give you full control. You can hand-pick up to 50 instruments, such as stocks or ETFs, and decide how they are weighted in your Pie.
- Add Instruments: After choosing “Custom”, search for and add the investments you want to include, or use our Most Popular list to get started. Tap an instrument's name to view its details.
- Adjust Allocations: Assign a target percentage to each slice. This percentage decides how much of your future investment will go to each instrument. You can enter percentages with up to two decimal points.
💡 Example
If your Pie has Google at 70% and Apple at 30%, and you invest £100, then £70 will be invested in Google and £30 in Apple.
Model Pies – Invest with Pre-built Allocation Models
Model Pies are pre-built allocation templates created by third party asset managers. They do not take your personal circumstances into account and are not recommendations.
Browse by category on the discovery screen and tap any pie to view its variants and holdings. Each variant represents a relative level of investment risk of the underlying holdings (for example Conservative, Moderate, Assertive, or Aggressive).
These labels do not mean that a variant is suitable for your personal risk profile.
📄 Note
This is an execution-only service. Ready-made pies offer solely data on investment allocations and should not be regarded as investment advice or investment research. You are responsible for all investment and rebalancing decisions.
Social Pies – Copy Community Portfolios
Social Pies let you explore and copy portfolios created by other Trading 212 investors and you can choose whether to replicate their allocations. Browse the available categories on the discovery screen or search by pie name. After copying, you can adjust the holdings and weightings before proceeding.
📄 Note
If the pie owner makes changes in the future, you will be notified automatically and can accept the update.
Social Pies are created by members and not by Trading 212, and may not be suited to your strategy. Nothing shared should be taken as investment advice, a recommendation, or a guarantee of performance.
Personalisation, Review & Funding
Personalise Your Pie
Give your Pie a name and choose an icon, then tap Create Pie to confirm.
Fund Your Pie
After your Pie is created, you can make an initial deposit. This step is optional — you can skip it and fund your Pie later from the Pie overview screen.
Set Up AutoInvest
AutoInvest lets you schedule recurring deposits so your Pie is funded automatically according to the rules you set. Set a deposit amount and frequency for your investments.
Distribution Type
When setting up your Pie, you can decide how new money (or reinvested dividends) is allocated:
- Self-Balancing (Default): New money goes to underweight slices first, helping keep your Pie close to its targets.
- By Targets: Always aims to match exact target percentages, even if it means adding to overweight slices.
❗️ Important
The default distribution type for both Manual and AutoInvesting is Self-Balancing. You can change it anytime, either before or after setting up AutoInvest, or before making a manual investment.
It may be helpful to review your settings from time to time to make sure they still work for you.