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Robinhood Makes $331 Million Off Customers Trading Activity – Is Warren Buffett Right That It s Basically a Casino?
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Traders Magazine
By Dr. Richard Smith
With all the ink spilled on the GameStop saga, there’s one question that no one has yet been able to answer: in the end, who’s really making money on this?
To anyone outside of investing, it looks like David vs. Goliath: retail investors on one side, fed up with chronic losses and no respect; and hulking hedge funds on the other, winning relentlessly at the expense of the retail public.
It’s a compelling story, but it’s not the whole picture. There’s a part of the story that is not being adequately told. It’s the story of retail brokerage Robinhood and its partnership with prominent market makers like Citadel Securities. When the dust settles on this episode, what will be undoubtedly clear is that while some won and some lost, Robinhood and Citadel made money coming and going.
Something for Nothing? One wondered about Robinhood’s business model. The discount brokerage, which debuted in 2015, gives away trades. How, then, could the firm earn its keep? According to Robinhood’s early disclosure, its revenues came from two channels: 1) convincing customers to upgrade to its Gold service, 2) interest, either collected from its investors’ cash accounts or gained by lending securities.
Hmmm. The company’s Gold service, which offered extra benefits such as after-hours trading and margin trading, would never generate enough revenue to pay the company’s bills. And while interest receipts are critically important for Robinhood’s rivals, those companies boast much larger average customer accounts than does Robinhood, which targets millennials. (Charles Schwab’s (SCHW) current average account size is estimated to be