Robinhood’s Stock Has Plunged and Its Traders Are Leaving | WSJ What Went Wrong

Robinhood was one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley before its IPO. But now, its share price is down around 75%. WSJ’s Gunjan Banerji explains how Robinhood fueled a meme-stock craze and why it’s now struggling.
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[@specialsam24]

Love how they completely omit how Robinhood trade restricted meme stocks from retail investors to protect big hedge funds that shorted them.

[@MayorMcC666]

because that would be libelous

[@Nope_handlesaretrash]

@@MayorMcC666 ain't libel when it's facts

[@drmode]

Exactly, bc WSJ, like Politicians, are in bed with Donor Class

[@saajanp5544]

Also, no mention of other brokers doing the same thing

[@MrSupernova111]

That's what happens when the news media is for sale to the highest bidder.

[@NotoriousRKB]

The bad PR from how they handled meme stocks killed them. Removing the buy button was illegal and they should go under for it

[@Xantrah]

Sold everything I had on robinhood and deleted the app that day. When a company handling your money tells you they can't be trusted, listen to them.

[@spacetoast7783]

Everything I don't like is illegal!

[@ALC0LITE]

@@spacetoast7783 Blatantly manipulating financial markets is illegal

[@spacetoast7783]

@@ALC0LITE Manipulating how? Literally every interaction with a market or a public company influences shares.

[@ALC0LITE]

@@spacetoast7783 Manipulating by disallowing buy orders for a certain stock while maintaining sell orders. Are you being intentionally dense? That is highly illegal.

[@iboughtyomom]

You guys not talking about the stop on buying meme stock from Robinhood just makes the whole video stink.

[@gkh250]

So no mention about Robinhood trade restricted meme stocks from retail investors to protect big hedge funds that shorted them at all? WSJ is becoming a joke.

[@drmode]

Amen

[@josefavaldez7165]

0 'tj

[@josephroman8931]

Not only Robinhood restricted meme stocks it was halted almost everywhere

[@spacetoast7783]

Why would they destroy their own reputation to help random other companies?

[@Jose04537]

@@spacetoast7783 Because restricting free trade is market manipulation? Which is illegal.

[@DeusEx.Machina]

After what they did with the meme stocks, i immediately sold and withdrew all my money from their service. They couldn’t be trusted.

[@centozo]

Good move.

[@spacetoast7783]

Yep, they were all too tiny to put down massive collateral on highly volatile stocks. This is why you should stick with established companies.

[@johngraham2470]

Same here

[@LaSombraa]

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[@aritragupta4182]

What happened was that it called itself Robin Hood but when push came to shove became Reverse Robin Hood, blocking retail investors from cashing in on the meme stock short squeeze to protect hedge funds. It's very satisfying to see the company get a big middle finger from its customers.

[@uberboiz]

Totally agree

[@I_like_turtles_67]

Robbing the Hood.

[@ttrnet123]

Maybe don't screw your clients by freezing their accounts and licking the boots of equity fund managers.

[@kaymish6178]

The users aren't the clients they're the product. The marketmakers who pay for order flow are the real clients. Remember if you get it for "free" you are the product.

[@drmode]

👍🏼

[@MrSupernova111]

@@kaymish6178 . How's that working out for RH you clown?

[@spacetoast7783]

When did this happen?

[@alyzluke801]

@@spacetoast7783 the whole GameStop incident where hedge funds lost billions.

[@elitebreakoff]

You forgot to mention Robin hood temporarily halted the buying of gamestop, AMC, etc and only allowed them to be sold. Effectively assisting Citadel with their short

[@mariabou7750]

and she also forgot when Musk interviewed Vlad and asked if the dtcc was holding a gun to his head xD

[@ev.c6]

? How could they halt it from being bought but allow it be sold? Who’s buying the shares if they can’t be bought in the first place? Your statement makes no sense.

[@quinspersygdunzoidsr7332]

Well people could still buy GameStop shares outside of Robin Hood, it’s not the only platform that exists for trading ? So it is very much possible that they could halt buying whilst allowing it to be sold.

[@PsiliPharm2012]

THIS!!!! I removed all my funds shortly after this, they violated the law and nothing happened. GME/AMC weren’t the worst part to me, because Robinhood wasn’t the only brokerage to limit these securities. It was all the other stocks that they restricted, like SNDL was also expected to short squeeze that day. It pisses me off they got away with such clear cut case of corruption. The SEC showed itself to be nothing but a joke to the retail investors that experienced this injustice.

[@renelove]

Terrible move on their end. No trust

[@WildBuck]

Wish they still showed the dislike count... I'm sure many have disliked the video for them failing to acknowledge Robinhood's trade restrictions on meme stocks. Under no circumstances should a broker do that They simply protected the hedge funds Edit: Thanks a lot for keeping the count guys, let's see if it keeps on rising until they acknowledge :D

[@TrueFaith94]

The "Return KZbin Dislike" Chrome Extension will show the thumbs down icon & count on KZbin

[@AhmedNazir]

127 dislikes at 17:34 UTC

[@josephroman8931]

Not only Robinhood halted trading almost all trading platforms restricted buying/selling

[@spacetoast7783]

What could they have done differently to avoid that? Their clearing house was asking for more collateral than RH owned.

[@spacetoast7783]

@@josephroman8931 Almost like the collateral on highly volatile stocks is huge, and small companies don't have that much liquid cash.

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[@CrimsonAlchemist]

Robinhood founder & executives should be ashamed of themselves for helping Hedge funds & other Stakeholders when it was all fair & game during the Gamestop stocks crisis. I hope they fail

[@MrBrooksV]

I don’t typically engage in active boycotts of companies, but I made sure to go out of my way to deter everyone I knew from using Robinhood. I closed out my account shortly after the scandal and have never looked back

[@keithhahn2427]

So sad they left out the most important facts why people left.

[@spacetoast7783]

What other stakeholders?

[@keithhahn2427]

@@spacetoast7783 Who do you think, other stakeholders looking to short the stock. They got squeezed so hard, you could only sell your AMC among mems stocks at the time.

[@spacetoast7783]

@@keithhahn2427 Why would they care about random traders who aren't connected to their company?

[@elginestate]

GameStop and AMC caught the eye of regulators you say? It sure did LOL

[@spacetoast7783]

Yeah and they couldn't find anybody acting improperly.

[@andrewgorr5300]

They lost a huge swath of users due to loss of confidence after they froze accounts to protect their larger firms.

[@spacetoast7783]

Large firm? RH is tiny compared to established companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, and Schwab.

[@davidgibson7179]

Now with the recent economy, To get financial freedom you have to be making money while you're asleep

[@clintonsarah5769]

How? Please Shed some light, I am still confused. I am new to investing and I am open to Ideas

[@Lopez-we2qs]

Well investing in stocks and crypto isn't a bad idea, a good trading system would put you through many days of success

[@jamessurg2091]

1. Crypto 2. Stocks These two are really profitable now.

[@jamesgeorge5896]

It is possible to produce good investment success provided you're focused

[@OfficialBigThink]

Some of us tend to pay more attention to the shiniest position in the market to the cost of proper diversified

[@Cian_]

I'll tell you what happened. They stabbed their core customer base in the back and tried to help the billionaires.

[@MightyRoy]

Oh yeah they froze certain stocks that wallstreetbets guys needed to sell

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[@jameslarry3919]

A friend that I referred to her just received $7,050 profit after 10 days of investing..... became jealous.. lol

[@cliftonshepherd3141]

Trading with an expert is the best strategy for newbies and busy investors who have little or no time to monitor trade

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[@BorisForOffice]

The comments here about Robinhood restricting meme stock trading are ridiculous - Robinhood uses a 3rd party clearing firm that has specific margin requirements. When the stock prices rapidly fluctuated, trading had to stop for those margin requirements to be met. Robinhood lost a ton of money from this.

[@ask_why000]

And now they've lost a ton and customers and will potentially go out of business... because capitalism.

[@BorisForOffice]

@@ask_why000 They probably won't go out of business. They're not doing well because the massive 10+ year bull run is now over and a lot of the younger crowd that trades there is running out of money. Not sure what this has to do with capitalism

[@collegedegree8506]

Loss of trust is number one, lots of competitors like WeBull, FTX and M1. Established competitors like TD implementing more features. And now the market is in a downturn for the first time for many of the novices that started on Robinhood. TLDR: Loss of trust, competition, and a down market for novice investors; their primary clients.

[@ydorni5923]

Not a single word about the GameStop disaster

[@louisclifford9874]

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[@anthonysam9391]

Investing in stocks and crypto is a good idea, a good trading system would put you through many days of success.

[@tinythomas4438]

It is possible to produce superior performance provided you do something different from the majority. However most of us tend to pay more attention to the shiniest position in the market to the cost of proper diversification.

[@wilsonbrown8993]

Having monitored my portfolio performance which has made a jaw dropping $370k from just the past two quarters alone, I have learned why experienced traders make enormous returns from the seemingly unknown market.

[@louisclifford9874]

@@wilsonbrown8993 Interesting, I have a lump sum doing absolutely nothing at all in my bank account, I wanna get something started with it. You seem to be doing excellent for yourself, how do you achieve this?

[@wilsonbrown8993]

@@louisclifford9874 Exactly, the trick is to diversify your investment, don't panic when everyone else is and invest consistently.

[@vkchaitanya2003]

The way they handled meme stocks and how they seemed to walk away from the small trader to the side of big traders was the tipping point . I lost $10k on their stock

[@spacetoast7783]

This is what you get for just blindly following anyone with anti-establishment branding.

[@STELLASCUTENESS]

That IPO image of the two founders was all you needed to know they didn’t have the depth to understand this business. They cast themselves as saviors of the little guy, but their hubris actually doomed them.

[@drmode]

Bc they choose investors over its customers

[@elvism684]

Aren't their customers investors?

[@spacetoast7783]

That's every company ever. You have a duty to generate profits.

[@eddypan007]

Robinhood removed the buy button.. that’s what happened to Robinhood

[@dobridin]

So it is shame for them for benefiting on small pennies from transactions but when banks benefit the same way from card transactions is perfectly fine. How hypocritical is that

[@SupremeChief1]

It wasn’t only Robinhood. A lot of others brokerages got involved in halting the trades.

[@spacetoast7783]

Yep, they were all too tiny to put down massive collateral on highly volatile stocks. This is why you should stick with established companies.

[@neveraskedforahandle]

What a relief! The regular person isn't allowed to participate in The Rich Man's gambling! That would be absurd!

[@jjakji2078]

Trading on robinhood is like entering a Moto GP with a Ford Focus.

[@BlackhawkSC]

Did anyone catch that Fidelity National Financial is not the same as Fidelity Investments? Fidelity Investments is a non-public company and doesn't have a stock chart. Nice reporting WSJ.

[@tokyodrifttt]

Why omit one of the important point which is turning on their own user base when making a business report?

[@Seanpfree]

👍 glad to hear it, I've had shorts open for a year :)

[@harris977]

They ripped me off on big trades on multiple occasions, and made me relook at all my fairytales

[@madhu3dots]

Credits to Jon Stewart for raising awareness on this issue.

[@SoCalFreelance]

The CFO looks like he's 17

[@Patangy]

I've been investing in stocks for 15 years, all these comments about Robinhood freezing buying to save hedge funds show why people should actually learn about the stock market before complaining about how it works. This isn't some grand conspiracy. Look up the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and its role in settling transactions. It feels like Robinhood and similar apps gave teenagers a bunch of fireworks and said, "here you go, have fun" without actually explaining that pointing them at your own face is a bad idea.

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[@mercytarot723]

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[@wizard5219]

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[@johndeng5795]

you have just described frontrunning by HFTs such as Citadel, which (once the regulators catch up) should be illegal.

[@thomashull7669]

WSJ made a 7 minute video about what went wrong WITHOUT SAYING A THING ABOUT THE ACTUAL REASON IT WENT WRONG

[@giovannidigitalart]

This report failed to mention the major reason why retail traders left which was the halting of trading on games top and others. It just felt shady not to mention the explanation robinhood gave was boguss and nebulous. To conclude they lost confidence and trust

[@01jbeals]

Well that was a disappointing, misleading video … come on WSJ, I expect more from your journalism. What a shame. We all know the real reason why they fell… not telling the full story of what went wrong is unacceptable. Clearly I’m not the only person who feels this way…

[@spacetoast7783]

What's the reason?

[@01jbeals]

@@spacetoast7783 2 words: Meme stock.

[@spacetoast7783]

@@01jbeals Two words don't answer my question.

[@bencastro921]

@@spacetoast7783 i understood it. Are you in robinhoods payroll?

[@spacetoast7783]

@@bencastro921 I'll answer your question after you answer mine

[@youtubelearning2990]

I thought it was because robinhood stopped trading with GameStop and other meme stocks? The people lost trust in them.

[@lukasvoesenek5642]

Great commentary from Gunjan but sub-par audio quality on her shots (and not great video quality inn the same shots either)

[@tino6117]

They didn't charge a fee, they just gave you a worse buy/sell price and made much more money from that. I hope they'll get busted for that too.

[@drgreenthumb234]

Uhhhhhhh it was hit hard because retail investor's pulled out from their app because of the crime they were apart of. Simple as that

[@ultimatedx3550]

You missed the main reason investors turned away. The Comments section speaks the truth.

[@spacetoast7783]

Where? All the top comments I see are wild conspiracy theories.

[@ultimatedx3550]

@@spacetoast7783 more like conspiracy fact. Watch Tenev trying to explain why he stopped investers from buying more gamestop. Loss of trust killed this app.

[@spacetoast7783]

@@ultimatedx3550 So what's your theory, sweetheart?

[@jianxinbi]

My Robinhood account has been review for three months by now.They don't allow me sell or deposit or do anything and they didn't give me any reason for this.Are you have same problem?

[@apoun79]

They still around? I stopped paying attention when they blocked people from buying GameStop stocks.

[@OneManOnFire]

I applied to Robinhood months ago and got a no reply a few weeks ago. I'm glad I didn't work for this company.

[@Helpertin]

2 things killed it. 1) Restricted trade of meme stocks to protect hedge funds. 2) No Roth IRAs. No one is going to want to seriously trade on your platform without those. I didnt have time to wait while they maybe catch up.

[@beornmorder6891]

Totally cool with P2OF if it is within reason. But freezing trading when there is a conflict of interest is no good.

[@spacetoast7783]

What trading was frozen due to a conflict of interest?

[@walkingandroid1389]

At 6:45, is Fidelity National Financial the same as Fidelity Investments ? hey seem unrelated and Fidelity Investments is private as far as I know.

[@mcskipper100]

With all due respect at least with Robinhood, you actually buy actual stock of a company, rather than what we have in the UK, like Etoro and all the other CFT's businesses whereby your betting on a stock to rise or fall. And all nonsenses that go along with that.

[@AkuNoHana]

I keep clicking these videos only to later realize it’s from WSJ and be disappointed by a joke of a journalism. Never again.

[@professora.9603]

I had a regular account and they charged me $55 dollars twice at the end of the year. No one's talking about this. I only caught it because I check my bank account on a regular. It happened in January of this year.

[@carboy101]

Once Fidelity started changing their UI to be more like Robinhood. I haven’t gone back to Robinhood since.

[@krisvin7761]

Its fall began after it halted trade on meme stocks! It started to work for its wall street masters rather than the small retailer

[@jamesluo2510]

Error in "Share prices of online brokerages" chart at 6:46. "Fidelity National Financial Inc." is not Fidelity Investments, which is privately held and does not have a publicly-facing "share price."

[@JoeBonhamOfficial]

It was Schwab vs Robinhood, not fidelity

[@theflagguy7704]

They need to get rid of the pattern day restriction.

[@123batina]

All those meme stocks Robinhood popularized, are killing market makers causing high slippage and volatility to it and other stocks. While at the same time, in reality, being a net zero sum game at best.

[@Seanpfree]

Retail Traders are not #Robinhood customers, Citadel is. Your trades, info, and data is the PRODUCT sold to #Citadel There's a reason they're one of the richest companies in the world. AI learns from your behavior and trades against some orders they process. This is one of the biggest rackets in our economy, the corruption is in full display.

[@elba_magellan]

Platforms are based on trust. If that is lost... there is no value. I loved their interface and their convenience. I was disappointed with them selling info on retail investors .After gamestop I was done. I understand the founders were under pressure from their investors. Your customers are more important than your investors. Couldve been something great if they thought long term. Democratizing investment grade assets. Not milking retail investors.

[@RipCCCord]

If only there investors had any forethought at all...

[@woflpackfightclub]

Hey Robin Hood is a great trading app old money is just trying to scare new money I wouldn't pay any attention to this video honestly

[@roy2495]

Good for the people, good for the market.

[@vishalpatel1857]

This goes along the way with how lot of news outlets now a days works on creating news than delivering the news, lot of this is not specific to Robinhood if you put all trading firms under the microscope.

[@allocated_capital]

Responsible investing does not involve frequent trades for the average investor. So I wouldn’t trust any company which generates revenue solely off of trading volume. The size of the trade doesn’t matter, since they are just profiting off minor timing differences in the price. Basically, they make money by micro-scamming unsophisticated investors who would make more frequent, smaller trades than an institutional investor.

[@j01150126]

Your first statement is dead wrong. People make their livings off of day trading. 😒

[@DANiELLEfineArt]

It went how many IPOs go. I had some extra cash and put it in Robinhood stock at its low, and I am still in the green even after this past week's beating. I'm neither bullish nor a bear on it, and I completely understand why it is an easy company to talk bad about. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and another company will buy it before it drops down to my take my gains and go minimum percentage.

[@cameron7294]

Robinhood is the truth plain and simple.

[@goat7844]

Real simple, Robinhood not know better than any other trading brokers. They paused the memes trading midday. Customers did like that plus their customers service is very poor.

[@dabda8510]

So no mentioning of how trades made via Robinhood was never really connected with the market?

[@j01150126]

It's interesting how NFTs have picked up the ball on this without needing Wall Street.

[@savannahm.laurentian1286]

Serious financial pundits know exactly why Robinhood is struggling. Hard to explain to lay people--the Nottingham Effect.

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What does this video have to do with heat transfer?

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I'm thinking about investing also, any suggestions?

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[@patrickmartin2894]

As a first time investor I started trading with him with a thousand bucks. My portfolio is much more that now within just weeks of trading with him..

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[@anthonyjames4662]

Last year I sold a substantial proportion of my stock portfolio and also sold some real estate so I could diversify into crypto. I am very happy that I made the move. The stock market has been hit pretty hard. Never put all your eggs in one basket, unless you want busted eggs

[@austinpeter6116]

Crashes are best time to get rich. Take care.

[@Boucher-Antoine]

Strap into crypto these are times wealth are created

[@dominicmiles3417]

@@austinpeter6116 I agree

[@Manon-Bernard]

I wanted to trade Crypto but got confused by the fluctuations in price

[@jayjong6941]

Switching off the buy button

[@redbutterfly88]

Ouch. The celebration just quietly ended. Without this news i wont even remember robinhood. They were everywhere 2020-2021

[@Edgeverse]

Whats a good alternative?

[@travisdt]

Can’t download in excel, can’t find out realize / unrealized win loss. Secretly steal money from trader since you can’t check

[@billgoodman3537]

THIS VIDEO IS NOT CORRECT! ALL BROKERS MARKUP THE PRICE OF A STOCK/BOND!!! THAT'S HOW THEY MAKE MONEY!!! YOU NEVER GET THE EXACT PRICE YOU SEE IN A "PRICE qUOTE". TO LOCK IN A PRICE YOU USE A "LIMITED ORDER" WHICH IS THE PRICE YOUR WILLING TO PAY.

[@BigRiccc]

I left when they turned off the BUY button on GME.

[@luispaz27]

Which trade company u guys trade or trust? Thinking of leaving Robinhood

[@carmellacandy509]

Tradestation.

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[@kphantom]

Ah yes I am also a spammer account but I have no money to invest in this scam comment chain.

[@nancyryan1651]

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[@Jose04537]

I recommend the video "Robinhood Corporate Casket" by Iluminati. It covers a lot of their controversies unlike this video.

[@forentertainmentpurposeson1351]

This is what I don't understand about the younger generation who flocked the things that just seems like it's revolutionary but back by the same people they trying to get away from. Nothing happens in America without the old Banks permission. Robinhood was back by those same Banks, same training firms, that the younger generation was getting away from. Money flows, an old money flows the swiftest and the deepest. And when it comes to Wall Street and trading the older the money the more power you have. That's how Robin Hood could stop the buying and selling of those stocks. Because the old money said turn it off and they did. Wall Street is a scam. Robinhood proved that to you. All the people that you admire are all part of an oligarchy and they all have shares in each other's company. They're going to allow each other companies to thrive but if those companies allow the everyday average person to thrive. Then we turn it off.

[@thomasa.woodworth8458]

I HAVE INCURRED SO MUCH LOSSES TRADING ON MY OWN...I TRADE WELL ON DEMO BUT I THINK THE REAL MARKET IS MANIPULATED... CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT OR AT LEAST TELL ME WHAT I'M DOING WRONG ?

[@michalee.viviano9266]

Same here, My portfolio has been going down the drain while I try trading,l just don't know what I do wrong

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[@kendellfriend5558]

The only crime here is that I can’t short it on FTMO. 😭

[@Commentthat]

Robinhood introduced me to trading. But the company gives in to every political circumstance. They should have kept their information giving to a minimum because ultimately they gave their customers information and it was used against it's traders basically bankrupting them. I like Robinhood but the love isn't there. We should be able to trade with who and where we want to trade but many platforms have shown that we do not live in a free world. There is no freedom of speech, there is no freedom period or justice as we are robbed of these freedoms by their political biases. We never said we agreed.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Can I break it to you gently that "one" is a singular noun? One in four shares is this, that, or the other thing. The other three aren't. Get it? It's not hard if you just try thinking.

[@eurodoc6343]

Anyone else notice that their CFO looks like Brad from The Middle?

[@MarkDanielLouwe]

i wish for them to recover and fix most problems

[@toddknode752]

they made investing as easy as playing a video game. Investing should not be that easy.... that is how people lose their life savings. Rather than taking time to do research on what they should invest in and actually THINK about it they just push buttons on a screen like a carnival side show.

[@kokwahtan8577]

Never ! Never! Never!!!.....Buy or Invest a IPO. ( not after 12 or 16 Quarter report) . U be saved generally.

[@samanparsi6187]

It's simple : They sided with big hedge funds against retail traders and investors and people found out about those rats in Gamestop case. So They better go bankrupt

[@KevinSar]

All of a sudden, everyone knows Genslers' name

[@angelogonzalez2034]

I feel like they manipulated the Doge hype as well

[@alumni2a692]

A little bit of a travesty of the truth from WSJ who forgot to mention Robinhood at some point did forbid users to buy those shares and tried to force them to sell under the pressure of large investment banks. One can only assume WSJ does not want to cut its bridges with those investment banks.

[@lothean2099]

I was going to sign up for robinhood till the game stop scandal. Then I lost all faith in them.

[@auro1986]

naming it robinhood was wrong. wsj should have suggested the name "robbing who?"

[@fupopanda]

This video now makes me wonder if the other WSJ videos that covered subjects that I didn't know too well about were also just feeding me fluff. How can you not mention the biggest factor, which is that they lost the trust of their users in January 2021.

[@eyelovecolorado2195]

How surprising!?! So teenagers that use only stimulus checks for investing do not lead to a good business model??

[@sanathkumar8863]

They did not mention how they froze the trading of GME , teamed up with shitadel and screwed their customers over ..