In August, Robinhood acquired Say Technologies, creating a platform that allows its individual investors to engage with company executives in a way that was once the exclusive domain of institutional…
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This Robinhood Investor Turned $250k Into $400 Mil
It was 2013, and Chad Byers, co-founder and general partner at Susa Ventures, was looking for a company worthy enough to be the firm’s first investment. As detailed in an…
Robinhood and What Some Say Buffett is Missing
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have been openly critical of the Robinhood trading app which, according to a recent article in CityWire, raises “some bigger questions that must be faced…
Robinhood Traders Pack a Punch Five Times Their Assets
Individual investors had an impact five times the size of their assets in the second quarter of 2020, says a new study from the Swiss Finance Institute. This according to…
Questions from Robinhood Trader Reveal “Uninformed Equity-Market Participant”
Researchers at Oklahoma State and Emory University have found that “the popularity of zero-commission brokers has attracted a new type of uninformed equity-market participant that in aggregate has negative effects…
Munger on How Robinhood is Luring Novice Investors in ‘Dirty Way’
In a virtual talk given last month in Los Angeles, Charlie Munger—the 97-year-old vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway chairman and longtime business partner of Warren Buffett—issued a “dire warning on…
GameStop Mania Leads to Scrutiny on Online Broker Payments
The recent GameStop saga is “prompting calls for regulators to reconsider a decades-old practice in the U.S. stock market” in which trading firms pay brokerages for the right to execute…
A Cautionary Tale for Retail Investors: Robinhood’s $65 Million Fine
In December, the Securities and Exchange Commission said that the trading platform Robinhood was not forthright with customers on how it makes money and has fined the platform $65 million.…
Lesson from China for Robinhood Traders in U.S.
A recent Bloomberg article highlights the recent and “remarkable shift in market composition” reporting that retail investors now account for a fifth of the U.S. stock market’s volume, twice the…
The Truth About Robinhood Investors Versus Wall Street Pros
Although small investors have drawn criticism from Wall Street professionals for being “hyperactive traders,” a recent MarketWatch article by columnist Mark Hulbert reveals new research that finds they have outperformed…