Robinhood

“companies like Robinhood that are gamifying financial markets”

“horrible platforms like Robinhood that aren't far off what the above poster alluded to”

“Robinhood erroneously showed their account balance at -$730k”

“Robinhood works hard to make their UI/UX as “fun” (dopamine-releasing) as possible”

“At least PFOF is more competitive and regulated and you're only getting a few basis points stolen from you”

“While I think robinhood has done some shady practices, this isn't one.”

“Platforms like Robin Hood just finished transforming the entirety of the stock market into a casino that preys on the poor”

“Options are essentially gambling, so to enable people to throw away their retirement on gambling is truly vile.”

“start investing in stocks for less than $100”

“Robinhood is probably the best software I regularly use. It's extremely smooth and intuitive for how powerful it is now.”

“Inventing a new, even less sophisticated class of traders seems like exactly the kind of thing that makes sense for their business model.”

“Robinhood didn't implement an API for users for a decade, even hindering and banning users who used an unofficial API”

“it's a net positive for robinhood, not the trader necessarily”

“Giving people access to markets isn't exploitation afaic.”

“They seem to jump on every hype train though, crypto, prediction markets, now agentic trading”

“It's where retail joe six pack goes to lose their money to the rich.”

“I nearly got banned from Robinhood for just running DCA using an unofficial python api”

“Robinhood is notably bad for promoting this kind of gambling behavior on its platforms”

“Instead just click buy in Robinhood or Schwab”

“it's actually not possible. I tried to invoke CCPA, and over a 19 email thread, got frustrating and contradictory replies”

“it's a lot easier to find employees, payment processors and advertising networks willing to work with you”

“it tries to drive people to trade often and take riskier bets”

“We are approaching the first couple years of this country where investing knowledge has actually proliferated out of the country club.”

“everything about Robinhood seems sketchy enough that I am comfortable keeping them firmly south of the border”

“Robinhood for easy investing (even if you can't afford a single share of a stock)”

“Robinhood/Webull are great if you know what you want.”

“Replace the word "democratize" with "unleash" and that's a far more accurate descriptor.”

“Giving credence and advertisement to all of those has caused huge societal problems.”

“Robinhood gold -3% off anything for $60/year”

“RH made a lot of investment tool accessible to people”

“they created easy to use beautiful apps”

“With Robinhood, you can do so with less than a C-note.”

“robinhood very valuable because it encouraged retail investors to have high trading volume”

“Most brokerages (IBKR, Schwab, Robinhood) treat every contract as a siloed trade.”

“their banking apps put a banner on the top warning they are not calling the user”

“Robinhood accounts are free for all.”

“Exploring unsophisticated investors. Trading on margin used to be for extremely experienced and educated people working for a large financial institution.”

“Gamifying and advertising the shit out of options trading to make it more attractive to morons”

“the top brokers you would need Schwab, Fidelity, Trading212, Hood.”

“He has pretty consistently noted that Robinhood is specifically a gambling app”