Robinhood Sells Out Retail Investors to Protect Large Clients

Christopher Hoskin
Taking Stock
Published in
4 min readJan 28, 2021

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A closer look at how the App makes its money explains why you can’t trade Gamestop and AMC today.

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Robinhood claims they are on a mission to “democratize finance for all,” what they don’t tell you is that they are financing that mission by selling your data to high-frequency trading firms. According to CNBC, “Robinhood has faced criticism over that piece of…

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Christopher Hoskin
Taking Stock

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