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The first was an SEC Charge that fined Robinhood $65 Million Dollars for “misleading investors” as to how they made money, and how they failed to get the best price for customer orders.
Bloomberg says almost half of Robinhood Revenue came from their practice of routing order flow…which, the SEC says - is deceiving to YOU as the investor, and exactly how much that’s costing you.
If you’re confused, here’s how it works: when you place a stock trade on Robinhood, Robinhood isn’t the one who fills that trade…instead, they instantly outsource it to another company that pays Robinhood for the right to fill your order. Those firms usually earn a very, very small percentage off the total amount…and even though this is a very common practice for almost every brokerage - the $65 million dollar settlement came from accusations that Robinhood didn’t necessarily get customers the most competitive pricing on the stock - but, instead - the routed orders to the company that paid the highest commission to Robinhood.
Second, the most recent allegation against Robinhood…is this:
“Robinhood accused of targeting novice investors with features that encourage excessive trading”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robinhood-lawsuit-massachusetts-aggressive-marketing-novice-investors/
READ THE MASSACHUSETTS LAWSUIT HERE
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IwkWVLlFtlCBX-z3N_k-GrZx2ZCQ-g8c/view
They claim that Robinhood is using aggressive tactics to target inexperienced investors, they’re failing to responsibly prevent and respond to system outages, they’re gamifying investing to encourage repetitive trading, they aren’t supervising who’s trading options, and because of that, they have breached their fiduciary duty as a brokerage.
Now, obviously - this is a REALLY touchy subject, because - on the one hand, investing SHOULD be made accessible to everyone - but, on the other hand, there ARE safeguards that should in place from preventing someone from getting in over their head.
Obviously, some might argue that it’s not ANY brokerages responsibility to protect people from themselves…but, the REAL issue is whether or not Robinhood has a legal obligation to put safeguards in place to make sure people can’t get carried away, and make sure that they properly qualify everyone as outlined by law.
BUT, I do have to end this off on a positive note for Robinhood, that - without them - we likely wouldn’t be seeing $0 stock trades like we do now, and UNDOUBTABLY, they’ve opened the door for SO MANY NEW PEOPLE TO INVEST that never would’ve invested otherwise. There’s inevitably going to be growing pains throughout the process, especially when you’re scaling up a “new” company to a now estimated $20 BILLION dollar valuation…and, overall, there’s a LOT of GOOD to come out of the platform, as well.
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What's up you guys, it's graham here so as most of you know, i really like to keep this channel centered around personal finance and investing, but every now, and then something comes up that i think is worth talking about further and today it's important we talk about. What's going on with robinhood, so no one else makes the same mistake now, just to some background. I discovered robinhood about four years ago and what originally caught my attention was that they were one of the first brokerages to offer zero dollar stock trades. That made it extremely easy to buy and sell stocks on a whim without having to worry about eight to twelve dollar commissions eating into your profits.

But even though they've now become wildly successful, the journey has not been smooth. They've had to shut down their original checking and savings account because it was never fdic or sipc insured. They experienced an outage that left people unable to sell their holdings during one of the most volatile times in the market. Users of wall street bets were able to exploit an infinite money, glitch that gave them unlimited leverage and more recently, data was released in an effort to show how people were using public information on robinhood to profit from enthusiastic traders before watching the stock come crashing back Down now, obviously, no one and no company is ever going to be perfect and there are shortcomings that we could list for pretty much every single company in existence.

But the allegations against hood are starting to get more serious and that is something worth diving into deeper, because this has everything to do with your money. How you invest and the accusation that if you lost money on robin hood, then maybe it's not entirely your fault and maybe robin hood is actually the one to blame. But before i explain why this is, if you wouldn't mind just gently annihilating the like button for the youtube algorithm, it would help me out a lot. So thank you so much for doing that, and also big thank you to morning brew for sponsoring this video.

But more on that later, all right, so here's where all of this begins. Last month i covered a rather interesting article with the headline herding by naive. Robin hood traders may be a good signal to short. The article went into detail about how robin hood is designed as a platform, which i think we could all agree, is a really good concept.

Their user interface is incredibly simple. It's extremely easy to navigate and by offering completely free stock trades to anybody, it's opened the door for pretty much everyone to invest with no prior experience whatsoever. Normally something like that should be celebrated. After all, i'm a firm believer that more people need to learn how to invest.

It doesn't have to be overly complicated, it doesn't need to be confusing, it doesn't need to be expensive and the more people that have access to financial literacy, the better, but some people argue legally. The ease at which you're able to invest your money in robin hood. Might cause you to lose more money than you expect and robin hood might just be making investing a little bit too easy for people who really don't understand what they're doing, for example, the biggest criticism was that robin hood made investing feel more like a game like When you were for a friend, you could get a free stock that you scratch off like a lottery ticket and then confetti comes raining down on anything that you get. You swipe up to place a trade you get dm like notifications, alerting you of account activity and within a few clicks, you could have access to options trading, and this is where things get interesting.
Arguably, options trading is not for the squeamish, because this could be a highly leveraged investment that could cause you to either make a lot of money or lose a lot of money. This is also nearly the entire premise of reddit's wall street bets, which is a community of 1.7 million users who post about how much money they've won and lost, and that brings us to the lawsuits brought forth to robin hood. The first was an sec charge that fined robinhood 65 dollars for misleading investors as to how they made money and how they failed to get the best price for customer orders see when it comes to robinhood and through zero dollar stock trades. You have to ask yourself if it's free to use how do they go and make money? Well, robinhood has broken this down for you in a few main components: one they make money from their robinhood gold service, which starts at five dollars a month and gives you additional features like margin trading along with level two market data and research reports.

The second, if you use margin, they're going to be charging you five dollars a month or five percent annually of your borrowed amount. Whichever is more now third they're going to be making money off the uninvested cash you have sitting on their platform and fourth, the issue. They're facing now is that bloomberg says almost half of robin hood's revenue came from their practice of routing order flow, which the sec says is deceiving to you as the investor and exactly how much that's costing you now, if you're confused here's how this works, when you Place a stock trade on robinhood robinhood is not the one who actually executes those orders; instead, they instantly outsource it to another company that pays robinhood for the right to execute your trade. Those firms usually make a very, very small percentage off the total amount, and even though this is a very common practice for pretty much every brokerage out there, the 65 million dollar settlement came from accusations that robin hood didn't necessarily get customers the most competitive pricing.

On a stock and instead they routed orders to the company that paid the highest commissions to robin hood. Now, usually, this is an amount. That's never really going to get noticed by you in fact, bloomberg estimated that this amounted to 0.0024 cents per share, but with hundreds of billions of trading volume, it adds up. This article says that robinhood earned about 180 million dollars off of trades like this in their second quarter, and the sec probe found that robin hood's inferior prices cost their customers 34.1 million dollars.
Even after considering the savings from not paying a commission on stock trades. Now, in defensive, robin hood on this costing their users 34 million dollars off of - what's probably hundreds of billions of dollars worth of total transaction volume, is not that much money in the big picture, and probably most of us would just never even notice, but regardless robin Hood did pay a 65 million dollar civil penalty without admitting to any wrongdoing, and robin hood went on to say that this settlement is related to historical practices that do not reflect robin hood today. However, this doesn't just stop there because now there's a much more serious allegation on the table, and this is the entire reason i'm making this video. But before i get into that, i just want to say a huge thank you to the video sponsor today.

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It gets delivered to your email every single morning and i read every single one of them and like it enough to recommend it to you. So if you're interested in business, finance or tech subscribe to their newsletter using the link down below in the description, it's totally free and takes you under 15 seconds. So thank you guys so much and with that said, let's get back into the video. The most recent allegation against robin hood is this robinhood accused of targeting novice investors with features that encourage excessive trading.
This massachusetts lawsuit, which i will attach down below in the description for anyone who wants some really good reading material claims that robinhood is using aggressive tactics to target inexperienced investors, they're failing to responsibly, prevent and respond to system outages, they're gamifying investing to encourage repetitive trading. They aren't supervising who's trading options and because of that they have breached their fiduciary duty as a brokerage, and now this is where it starts getting really interesting. They go on to say that 670 robinhood users with limited or no investment experience averaged at least five trades. A day with two of those customers, averaging close to 100 trades per day and robinhood even allowed one customer with no trading experience to make 12 hundred trades in a six month time frame, i'm not even mad, like i'm impressed anyway.

This lawsuit continues on to say that robin would let 370 people with no experience that would ordinarily never have qualified for options trading access to options trading anyway and in massachusetts they argue that robinhood has a fiduciary duty towards their customers, meaning robinhood needs to look out For their best interest and most likely, their best interest is not having access to unlimited margin trading that might cause them to trade more than they should now. Obviously, this is a bit of a touchy subject because, on the one hand, investing should be accessible towards everybody, but on the other hand, there should be safeguards put in place to make sure that people can't get in over their heads. A very very unfortunate example of this was when one of their 20 year old customers chose to end his life after seeing a negative 730 000 balance in his account, he was one of the users that was approved to trade options and because of how these options Were exercised, a negative balance was temporarily shown in his account until the markets reopened on that monday. This was considered to be a short-term glitch in the system, but this trader didn't know this and thought instead that he owed robin hood 730 thousand dollars.

If robin hood responded, they made changes to the app and, overall, the situation is something that maybe could have been prevented under different circumstances, but the whole thing is just really sad either way. The point of this lawsuit is that they say robin hood is allowing people to gamble under the disguise of investing, and they make it far too easy for almost anyone to get approved for options trading without the proper safeguards in place. Now, from my own perspective, i do admit this is a very delicate situation and i have a feeling that eventually, there's gon na be strict regulation around who can and cannot get access to certain trading features on apps like this, for example, i've got over three million Dollars in a charles schwab account - and i literally had to call someone up on the phone and talk to a live human being to be approved for options training now with robinhood. On the other hand, i went on the app i answered, a few simple questions and almost immediately was good to go sure.
I certainly appreciate the convenience of robinhood, because that made my life very easy. But if i were somebody with an appetite for gambling - or maybe i just want to throw my entire life savings into gamestop call options, then perhaps i had just opened pandora's box now some people could argue that it's not a broker's responsibility to protect people from themselves. Just like, we can't blame a casino for someone's gambling problem, but the real issue is whether or not robin hood has a legal obligation to put proper safeguards in place to make sure people don't get carried away, and they also need to make sure that people are Qualified for what they sign up for, after all, the government has come to the conclusion that the average retail investor has absolutely no idea what they're doing and therefore there are regulations that have to be put in place to prevent people from losing everything like the term. Accredited investor is one of them and while some people argue that this just gives the rich an easier way of making more money, the reality is that so many startups fail and the average person is not going to have the budget to withstand so many losses before, Eventually, they maybe turn a profit.

Now i'm definitely no lawyer, but i certainly believe these accusations are really just the tip of the iceberg of what's eventually going to be implemented throughout every brokerage and at some point i believe, they're all going to be held to a higher standard that places more barriers On how much money people could invest, who could invest and how often they can invest it really all just comes down to how much responsibility do brokers have to protect you from yourself and how much responsibility do you have for your own actions? In my opinion, maybe a good middle ground would be to have their users take a test or a quiz before they're able to trade a certain amount of times or before they have access to margin and option trading. Ask questions about how options trading actually works or what happens when one of those options expires? I guarantee that would cut down on a significant portion of the number of people trading options that have no idea how to trade options, and i still think it's only a matter of time until there's a more clear distinction between what we call investing and gambling, because The line is definitely blurred, but i do have to finish this off on a positive note about robin hood, because without them we would likely not be seeing zero dollar stock trades like we do today, and undoubtedly they've opened up the door for so many new investors To come into the space that ordinarily would never be investing, there's inevitably going to be growing pains throughout the process, especially as a startup company that is now valued at an estimated 20 billion dollars and overall there's a lot of good to come out of the platform. As well, perhaps some changes will need to be made in terms of how robinhood presents itself as a game when it comes to investing. Maybe that might be similar to how vapes were being advertised towards children, and maybe they will end up changing their layout a bit.
If more of these issues persist, but that was their competitive advantage from the very beginning and that ended up getting so many new people into the investing space. So it can be a double-edged sword and it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. But if i were to guess this massachusetts, lawsuit is probably just going to be the tip of the iceberg until there's a more concise definition on what people consider investing and what people consider gambling and when it comes to all of this. I definitely want to hear what you think of this and whether or not it's reasonable or unreasonable.

So if you want to comment down below - and let me know your thoughts - i read like 95 of the comments at this point and i do my best to respond to as many people as i can. So if you comment down below most likely, i will see it so with that said you guys thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it make sure to destroy the like button. Subscribe button and notification bell also feel free to add me on instagram, i post it pretty much daily.

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30 thoughts on “Suing robinhood”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars reokitherat says:

    I got a robinhood ad before the video lmao

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark Smit says:

    I need your help with a lawyer for robinhood they took my 100k it just disappeared and as many emails I send them they never sent me back please I need your help

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Clearly Bae says:

    It took a long time to convince my boyfriend to start investing. I wanted to show him some videos and books before he got going but he surprised me and said he was ready to dive in. Then he bought Gamestop and Dogecoin -_-

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cucumamacacapipi says:

    Honestly I think this is bullshit. I think they are suing Robinhood because Robinhood is letting poor people make money off the stock market. That guy that made 12000 trades in 6 months is probably fucking rich now because he kept turning $0.05 into $0.10. They said they're ignoring their fiduciary duty but the truth is that Robinhood is ignoring their fiduciary duty to the super rich billionaires

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Naud van Dalen says:

    12,700 trades in 6 months.
    High frequency trading bots: pathetic.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Adam Cross says:

    Brokers technically do not have a fiduciary duty to their clients, but Registered Investment Advisers do!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Johnson says:

    I'm actually looking into suing Robinhood it toke my money said they reverse it and never gave it back does anybody know what kind of lawyer can help me

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dylan Labadia says:

    Review my channel! @Dylan365 I posted a video every single day for a full year. Rip apart or promote as you wish I respect your insight!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars mart9898 says:

    The headline he showed about "NAIVE ROBINHOOD TRADERS HOARDING STOCKS" did not age well.  Definitively not a "good signal to short."
    Whoever wrote that article should be delivering pizza today.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Allphonetips says:

    Graham out here predicting the future without even trying lmao

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jo is says:

    The issue is if you invest your life savings or more than you can handle that’s ultimately their fault … don’t risk money you can’t afford to lose

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Vannormus says:

    That kid killed himself because he lost so much money on Robinhood

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars UNITED KICKS says:

    That awkward moment when you realize this was uploaded a MONTH ago 🤯

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan Benjamin says:

    I'm deleting my robinhood account as soon as my stocks are transferred to fidelity. They crashed those stocks on purpose by only allowing selling to protect the hedge funds that own a large portion of their company.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jessica Kleinberg says:

    This popped up today in my feed…. wow.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Thurman Murman says:

    Or these brokerages can implement paper trading to be an initial, mandatory thing once you start your account. Kind of like a level-up “game” and depending how well you do, then you can prove your competence enough to be granted an account. 🤷🏽‍♂️ maybe run a credit check? 🤷🏽‍♂️

    Basically, require people to prove their competence that way the user learns something along the way and the brokerage can somewhat cover their ass.

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Submarine Attack says:

    Aaaaaaaaaand in the end its the hedge funds who are the irresponsible ones.

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Isaac Dolan says:

    Ironic that this video came out, then a month and a half later all of this stuff going on with GME and specifically robinhood.

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hamster En ligne says:

    Was in the process of joining Robinhood. So glad I seen to news to stop as I was entering my information.

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Salmon Fish says:

    Damn Graham knew how bad it was before we all did

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars bob segar says:

    No one should sue robinhood they are like the best company ever. They have a IPO this year I can’t wait to buy every share I can get ahold of. I suggest you all buy as many shares as possible too unless your a young WSB person then stay away so I can retire going all in baby.

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars No Talkaroo says:

    Mans living in a whole month into the future

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Carmen86 says:

    I believe that you have a crystal ball. January 28th, 2021…here we are.

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars kaheel bzs says:

    who’s here after Robinhood is selling people’s stock 👇🏽

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars CaptainG says:

    Who's here after they halted trading of gme

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars j2simpso says:

    Who cares about free trades? I mean they make up like 0.00001% of the money you spend on stocks in the long run. Like if I spend $10 per trade and I buy like $20-$30K in an index fund which I hold for like 30 years who cares? The vast majority of day traders who are trading tons of stocks everyday are wasting their time and doing far worse than the S&P 500 or other comparable index funds.

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Corey Collins says:

    And now they're manipulating the market for bad hedge fund managers.

  28. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Highborn says:

    Webull is the same. the current sentiment is: WE'RE NOT FUCKING SELLING!!!
    not a financial advice

  29. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andrew Appel says:

    Damn Graham, you're a wizard. You called ALL of this before r/wallstreet bets went to town.

  30. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Abrans Garcia says:

    Graham, your video is going to explode.
    This is the link between Melvin Capital and Citadel with the bailout that is happening right now and the stock buying ban across all retail investing apps.

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