The word survive can have multiple shapes. eToro founded in 2006 , Israel, has a revenue of 8 mils or so, while Plus500, UK, ( one of it's competitors) has a revenue of 700 mils. Both offers commission free trading in EU & both survive... Non that-much related list : (fits perfect your words about general masses wanting simplicity) @MattZ shared a video of happy Uber driver buying single SNAP share right at IPO.
They are bucket shops offering spread bets. They are trading against their customers. They are not regulated brokerage accounts so do not have insurance.
%% Maybe; a broker experienced in panic selling penny stocks could make it. I wondered about a penny stock broker with the admitted name RobinHood[ robin is a derivative of Robbing], Maybe they named it after P Tudor Jones Foundation,LOL, which could be a good name ??
I somehow feel like we’re going to be in the same situation as the Chinese market a few years ago where every one and their dog was opening an account. It’s like the brokerages are dying for accounts and theirs no more money flowing into the market. First IB dropped their minimum which has been there for a long time, then this free commissions crap. Someone posted recently an article with Michael Burry discussing the problems of ETF’s and liquidation. Theirs just so much money sitting in ETF’s compared to 2008 from passive indexers. Be interesting to see how it pans out when those have a to feel a bit of pain in the market.
Negative 1 billion? https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...15-outage-credits-as-lawsuit-filed-in-florida
Down $52,000 in a day: Furious Robinhood customers want payback following the app’s two day outage https://fortune.com/2020/03/05/robinhood-app-outage-customers-payback/ fortune Magazine - Paywall