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How is this even a question? Online brokerages are from the first dotcom boom. They are over 20 years old. There are many well establish reliable brokers. And
by josephorjoe 6y ago
How is this even a question?
Online brokerages are from the first dotcom boom. They are over 20 years old. There are many well establish reliable brokers.
And many of them have cut their transaction fees to $0.
All Robinhood seems to have done is layer a fun UI over a weak trading back end and pretend to be empowering their users.
- matwood 6y agoAnd the apps are still not very good. E-trade, one of the classic ones, works fine on the web but the app was still problematic the last time I used it. UI/UX matters. RH's core demographic is also more likely to be app first. In some ways this is a standard HN response that completely dismisses the UI/UX.