Buy US stocks and ETFs on eToro

eToro differs from Binance and DNSE in two ways: you buy by amount, and "selling" means closing a position rather than going short.

Buy by amount, not by share count

You enter the dollar amount and eToro works out the share count, fractions included. One SPY share costs over $500, but you can still buy $100 of it.

Fastbot🔵 Buy/sell stocks/ETF

🇺🇸 New eToro order Buy (Long) | SPY | market Enter the amount (USD). e.g. 100 Buying is by USD (fractional shares).

✖ Cancel

100

✅ Confirm eToro order Side: Buy (Long) Ticker: SPY Order type: Market Amount: $100.00 Reference price: $554.30 Estimated units: 0.18 A market order, filled at the current market price.

✅ Place order

✏️ Change✖ Cancel

The unit count is an estimate — the real fill can differ slightly from the reference price.

Selling means closing a position

The 🔴 Sell (close position) button closes what you hold. Fastbot never opens a short on eToro.

You give an amount here too. If it is less than you hold, Fastbot closes part of a position to match. Ask to sell more than you own and it tells you plainly:

Fastbotbot

⚠️ More than you hold You hold $1,293.85 of SPY, but asked to sell $2,000.00. Enter an amount at or below what you hold.

Two order types

• ⚡ Market — fills now at the current price.
• 🎯 Limit — you set a trigger price; when the market touches it, eToro sends a market order.

For a limit order the bot also asks about Stop Loss and Take Profit. Tap ⏭ Skip if you do not want them — Fastbot fills in dummy prices far from the market so eToro accepts the order without actually setting a stop or target.

US market hours

Orders only go through during the regular session: 9:30 – 16:00 New York time, Monday to Friday. Outside that the bot says "The US session is closed" and sends nothing.

New York is 11 or 12 hours behind Vietnam depending on the season, which is why the eToro account screen always shows the New York clock.

DCA on eToro

An eToro DCA plan buys a USD amount each cycle. One thing matters a lot here: when the automatic take-profit fires, Fastbot only closes the positions that plan opened.

Positions you bought by hand in the eToro app are left untouched, even in the same ticker. Fastbot remembers the ID of every position it created and closes only those.

See Create a DCA plan and Automatic take-profit.