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A comment on Robinhood S-1 IPO. Parent comment

Re:Robinhood S-1 IPO by kasey_junk on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:25PM (#27707273)
Let me play devils advocate for a minute. Robinhood had the clear market improvement of making trades cost zero dollars. Prior to their entry into the market $7 trades were considered cheap.

Meanwhile wealthfront is marking up investment opportunities that are widely available in funds or etfs for much cheaper.

I think wealthfront is much more predatory than Robinhood if judged on the basis of services rendered to informed actors.

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Re:Robinhood S-1 IPO by loeg on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:39PM (#27707361)
Trades of index mutual funds and ETFs held in the administrator’s brokerage were free for years before RH. (Eg, Vanguard funds at Vanguard and Fidelity funds at Fidelity.) What RH accelerated was $0 individual stock trades, which are not great for retail investors at any price.
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