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Re:Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:26PM (#24191625)
Education is not only lacking, but as you point out in your second sentence, this is by design.

I haven't used Robinhood for quite some time now, but by far my biggest pet peeve (well, more than pet peeve, it was the reason I deleted the app and closed my account) is that graphs had no labeled y axis. A stock price graph with no labeled y axis, and no 0 value, is almost entirely useless. You may be able to tell if your stock went up or down, but not by how much.

But then that is the entire point of Robinhood. Robinhood is a gaming company much more than it is an online brokerage.

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Re:Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing by UncleMeat on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:29PM (#24191653)
A while ago I got a cold call from a recruiter at robinhood. The key metric they used to sell me on how awesome they were was the number of times per day a typical user accessed the app. Straight up engagement metrics like a game.
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Re:Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing by aok1425 on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:55PM (#24191962)
smh
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