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u/MussleGeeYem 1 day ago

Are Wealthy HNWI Or UHNWI And Highly Educated People More Likely To Use Robinhood Compared To Other Investing Platforms?

I am just curious as I (25M) currently use Fidelity as my stock brokerage and Coinbase/Kraken as my crypto exchange. For me, I just don't like Robinhood and knew about the Gamestop/AMC fiasco and their PFOF system. RH's customer service also leaves a lot to be desired. My cousin (31M) told me he is a genius investor and financial advisor but I have seen his account dip from 250,000 USD in 2017 to 50,000 USD in 2026 due to contrarian trading. My cousin (who has an SAT of 1350 on a 2400 scale, not a 1600 scale) put tens of thousands of USD in personal loans into Robinhood, only uses Robinhood, and will not switch to another platform. He owes over half a million in student and personal loans after having dropped out of pharmacy school 2 weeks before finishing his final course in Summer of 2019 (6 years in, having finished x out of x+1 courses, aka 1 course remaining). My cousin is now a W2 long haul truck driver making 90k a year in a 70 hour workweek and has been on the road for 6 years, staying in the same company. He stated that he will never leave trucking or pay his student loans and only pay off the minimum in his 350k student loans, and will only quit trucking and enter real estate once he becomes a multi-millionaire. My cousin stated that the reason why some wealthy and affluent individuals use Schwab, Fidelity, Morgan Stanley/E-Trade, Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, and IBKR is because they are forced to by their companies because their 401k is attached to it. He stated that they are willing to switch to Robinhood, but are stuck in these other platforms. He stated that the taxes on Robinhood are far simpler in format than the others, and he could use Robinhood on his phone whilst hauling a truck on the road. My cousin argued that it was the trader's fault for the Gamestop and AMC fiasco and that they should have not invested in it and looked at the company fundamentals. My cousin also argued that if an asset went up even 1 percent, it is too late as the ship sailed and you should only buy the dip.
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  1. u/sp1cynuggs 1 1 day ago
    Lmao no. Robinhood is used by dudes gambling on calls and puts
  2. u/Slow_Lion_4178 1 1 day ago
    Yes.
  3. u/[deleted] 1 1 day ago

    [removed] — already gone when the archive first saw it

  4. u/ThanklessWaterHeater 1 1 day ago
    Robinhood was founded in 2013. Wealthy families who have been with Schwab for the last 50 years did not suddenly move their millions to a brand new firm aimed at inexperienced investors.
  5. u/Training_Gap1201 1 1 day ago
    NO LMAO
  6. u/Richard_Strauss 1 1 day ago
    I think you and your cousin have a great trip to Aspen in the near future.
  7. u/irish_curmudgeon 1 1 day ago
    lol no, they do not typically use robinhood or any other platform that has been turned into a gambling platform.
  8. u/AnnaSmiled2 1 1 day ago
    Intelligence and common sense do not go hand and hand. I bet your cousin struggles making a sandwich.
  9. u/BDMX 1 1 day ago
    Robinhood got to where they are by offering commission free trading before anyone else, now everyone else offers commission free trades. Literally no reason to use robinhood anymore
  10. u/NaiveChoiceMaker 1 1 day ago
    Why do you keep asking this question?
  11. u/RiPFrozone 1 1 day ago
    Pretty much all major brokerages do PFOF now (even dinosaurs like Fidelity recently introduced it on equity trades), that’s just how the industry has evolved and the one good thing robinhood revolutionized. It’s what allows fee free trading since PFOF is much more profitable for a brokerage. Second, if you have real money you want real support. Robinhood support is some of the worst in the industry, I do not believe you can even call them and get an agent on the line whenever you run into an issue. Fidelity, Schwab, IBKR, etc. all have agents ready to speak to whenever you want to call them. The GME fiasco is the biggest reason you shouldn’t trust robinhood, they aren’t at the same level of liquidity as the big brokerages. That type of thing doesn’t happen at Fidelity or Schwab. Any real investor is going to use Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, IBKR. And any real trader will use IBKR Robinhood is decent, but if you have more than 100k in your account you are doing yourself a disservice using them. If you have an account for their credit card + Roth match it’s one thing, but if all your investments are in robinhood I would look elsewhere. They have a long ways to go to before I’d comfortably put my retirement savings in them.