Schadenfreude aside I wonder if Robinhood is one of those services like Uber thats too useful to fail. I haven’t tried it but free trades with a super simple UI seems like a hard pandora’s box to close.
It’s probably hard to change the UI of an existing brokerage service though. Tons of testing required given the potential size of the transactions involved.
Vanguard UI is so bad for actively trading or even checking your positions that at this point I can only think its somehow part of their brand where they think they would actually lose customers if they updated it.
Literally use it for 5 minutes and you’ll understand.
1. Excellent watch list functionality including showing pre-market change separately from regular hours change.
2. Automatic alerts when any stock hits a new 52 week high or low as well a 5 or 10% move in either direction
3. Ability to trade starting at 4 AM which is at least 3 hours earlier than almost every other brokerage. This allows for earlier trades on big news.
4. Best mobile charts including the ability to show candlesticks with numerous indicators at many timescales. You’re not stuck with the bare Robinhood charts.
5. Excellent market information section showing top movers, highest volume, upcoming earnings, breaking news
6. Detailed information on large inflows and outflows for every stock
I have many more but I’ll start there because the charts and watch list alone make it easily better than the competition.
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1. Excellent watch list functionality including showing pre-market change separately from regular hours change.
2. Automatic alerts when any stock hits a new 52 week high or low as well a 5 or 10% move in either direction
3. Ability to trade starting at 4 AM which is at least 3 hours earlier than almost every other brokerage. This allows for earlier trades on big news.
4. Best mobile charts including the ability to show candlesticks with numerous indicators at many timescales. You’re not stuck with the bare Robinhood charts.
5. Excellent market information section showing top movers, highest volume, upcoming earnings, breaking news
6. Detailed information on large inflows and outflows for every stock
I have many more but I’ll start there because the charts and watch list alone make it easily better than the competition.
Will try and have a deeper look later this weekend :-)