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I would be pretty surprised if they introduced short selling. There's no question that a good chunk of Robinhood's user base are novice investors. Those that do
by szirka 9y ago
I would be pretty surprised if they introduced short selling. There's no question that a good chunk of Robinhood's user base are novice investors. Those that do not understand short selling may land themselves into a lot of a hot water. There may be measures RH could take to prevent novice users from dangerous short selling plays. I'd be curious to see how they introduce it.
- GeneralMayhem 9y agoThey could introduce put options, at least.
- rl3 9y agoJust so they offer some form of betting against the market. I don't care how. Creating beta-neutral systems with Robinhood would then be possible.
- pmalynin 9y ago(Not trading advice, yada yada) Well, The way I approach betting against the market is inverse leveraged ETFs. If you want to bet against S&P 500, ProShares has a 2X inverse offering, and you can probably balance it with 3x leveraged gold JNUG / JDST as they track the market.
- rl3 9y agoNice, I never knew inverse ETFs existed. Thanks for this!
- traviswingo 9y agoI actually emailed support about this a while back and was told it's on the roadmap.