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2 people · 5 quotes · 6 Feb 2021 to 25 Aug 2021
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Gurley states 64% of Robinhood revenue comes from options trading despite democratization claims.
“it's now known that 64% of their revenue comes from options trading. And so the company wants you to believe and and goes on public television and claims that their mission is to democratize investing.”
Gurley says over half of Robinhood's revenue comes from payment for order flow for options, which history shows loses money.
“Over half of the revenue that Robinhood has reported is payment for order flow for options.”
Friedberg interprets the $70 million FINRA fine on Robinhood as industry self-regulation to prevent government intervention.
“I feel like the the Robinhood fine the FINRA fine of $70,000,000, was a good red herring for what's gonna happen in this industry which is that the big financial services firms wanna participate in this market and they don't want regulators coming in and reregulating the market.”
Friedberg argues the $70 million Robinhood fine was meant to prevent broader regulatory intervention in fintech.
“They they see the opportunity in the same way that the startups do. And FINRA is a self regulatory organization.”
Gurley says Robinhood makes 4x more revenue on options trades than stock trades despite democratization claims
“they make about 4x the amount of revenue on a option trade than they do a stock trade. Why do I bring this up?”