How Does Robinhood Make Money?

TheStreet February 10, 2019 — Robinhood is an online investment and trading app launched in 2013 that boasts a commission-free model and keeps costs low for investors to trade stocks, ETFs, options and even cryptocurrency without paying commissions. “Robinhood’s revenue model could easily disappear,” Tyler Gellasch, executive director of Healthy Markets (an investor advocacy group), told Bloomberg in 2018. “They’ve made it clear that they are comfortable living on this regulatory edge.” (Full Story)

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