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Robinhood is a new stock brokerage platform.

It offers its services with $0 commission for US Stocks and ETFs and also has a $0 minimum deposit. Currently only US residents can use it and must therefore download the App from the App store. They plan on releasing it for Android in the near future.

They do have ways to make money, specifically:

For customers who choose to upgrade to a margin account, Robinhood will collect interest from margin lending.
In addition, Robinhood will earn a portion of the interest generated by uninvested customer cash deposits. The total interest earned is variable and based on the Federal Funds rate.

How your money links up with Robinhood:

You can link your personal bank account to your Robinhood account. You may transfer funds between your accounts using ACH transfers, and then use those funds to buy and sell stocks.

Most of this is taken from their website which can be found here >> https://www.robinhood.com/

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2015, 05:04:12 PM »
Have an invite PM

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2015, 10:57:38 AM »
any invites ? would love one if possible :)

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2015, 11:18:37 PM »
any invites ? would love one if possible :)
Did you get one yet? If not I have one.

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2015, 02:04:51 PM »
Did you get one yet? If not I have one.

Yes I did thanks :)

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2015, 05:50:21 PM »
I would appreciate an invite if someone has.  Thanks!

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Re: Robinhood
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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2015, 01:35:52 AM »
I used the first code you linked WXG8F....thanks

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2015, 09:54:37 AM »
I used the second. Thanx!

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2015, 02:11:29 PM »
is it a hard pull to open an account ?? my CRs are frozen and I got an email asking me to unfreeze my experian .. ?

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2015, 02:18:15 PM »
is it a hard pull to open an account ?? my CRs are frozen and I got an email asking me to unfreeze my experian .. ?
No I dont think so it never came up on my CR

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« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2015, 03:35:41 PM »
No I dont think so it never came up on my CR

Hmm yea i got the email to unfreeze my experian in order to complete account approval

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #31 on: March 12, 2015, 02:11:41 PM »
"The app officially launched Thursday"

Huh? I've had a couple of months

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/12/investing/robinhood-app-free-trading-millennials/

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #32 on: March 12, 2015, 10:08:51 PM »
You can sign up now for the Android beta.

https://robinhood.com/android/beta/

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #34 on: March 13, 2015, 02:47:08 PM »
needed to unfreeze my experian so they could verify my identity .. account approved

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #35 on: March 19, 2015, 01:25:48 AM »
There is way too much overheard for an online stock trading company to stay in business with revenue simple from margin and unused cash in your account. I don't think this company will be around too long despite them being backed by some very big venture capitalists.
Also you get what you pay for, these trades might take a fee hours to get executed, since they most likely don't gave direct market access.

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2015, 01:40:03 AM »
There is way too much overheard for an online stock trading company to stay in business with revenue simple from margin and unused cash in your account. I don't think this company will be around too long despite them being backed by some very big venture capitalists.
Also you get what you pay for, these trades might take a fee hours to get executed, since they most likely don't gave direct market access.

1) deposits/withdrawals take 3/5 business days each way, they collect interest on that
2) collect interest on any cash held in accounts
3) they sell options and other financial priducts. Only simple buying and selling of equities is free.
4) it doesn't cost so much nowadays to push 1's and 0's from one computer to the next.
5) if costs end up to high they can limit the amount of free trades per month and people will still stay.
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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #37 on: August 13, 2015, 09:18:31 AM »
Hey there! I am using DansDeals Forums.

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Re: Robinhood
« Reply #39 on: August 13, 2015, 09:31:25 AM »
Are the trades really delayed as mentioned up thread?