Robinhood Trading Controversies

Discussions center on Robinhood's trade restrictions during the GameStop saga, allegations of conflicts with Citadel via payment for order flow and front-running, SEC fines, and comparisons to other brokerages.

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freeone3000 • Jan 28, 2021 • View on HN

They don't do this. See https://nypost.com/2020/12/17/sec-slaps-robinhood-app-with-6... .

NickNaraghi • Jul 21, 2025 • View on HN

Unfortunately, Robinhood makes money by selling individual investor orderbook data to the big guys so they can front-run them

Amygaz • Nov 6, 2019 • View on HN

Does anyone knows if this is a RobinHood only thing or are other brokerage-fintech vulnerable to that?

kart23 • Jan 28, 2021 • View on HN

1 is right. Read section 16.https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Robinhood%2...

toomuchtodo • Feb 1, 2021 • View on HN

Edit window expired on the above comment. Robinhood is solving for capitalization with an equity raise [1] [2].[1] https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/2/1/robinhood-raises-34... (Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth)[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com&#x

sthnblllII • Jan 29, 2021 • View on HN

Robinhood can kick people off, block trading certain stocks to help big players, etc. All ordinary people can do is leave a bad review and you want to take even that away. Why?

cush • Jan 29, 2021 • View on HN

Robinhood didn't halt selling, only buying, and they have a massive conflict of interest.

iamben • Mar 3, 2020 • View on HN

They said this isn't the case - https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434?...

callamdelaney • May 19, 2021 • View on HN

Yes, but Robinhood have taken actions which purposefully harmed its users in order to benefit their corporate customers(Citadel).https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/robinhood-gamest...

guerrilla • Jan 28, 2021 • View on HN

The conspiracy is real, here's your source: https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...