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Re:Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews by spiderfarmer on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:56AM (#25955736)
It already was a dangerous scam app. The data on trades went straight to front running traders, so they could feed their algorithms and profit off your plans.
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Re:Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews by UweSchmidt on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:28AM (#25955924)
Is that actually true? I thought "frontrunning" was one of the fundamental things that is forbidden by stock trading regulation. Does it not apply when done with those new-fangled computers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running

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Re:Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews by rplnt on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:45AM (#25986798)
I mean, that's what you get for not paying for a service. It's a trade-off people knowingly took.
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