Jan 26, 2024 · Robinhood is owned by the same people who own Citadel, if you followed the GME stuff. They make money by selling your order flow to citadel's high frequency trading hedge funds. But, if you are indexing away in a vanguard ETF say, that order flow / worst legally allowed execution on trades doesn't really matter.

Oct 11, 2024 · The Robinhood investment account sync is kind of a mess so I just do it manually now in Empower. Ex: it sometimes just shows the balance, but not the underlying holdings (throwing off a bunch of charts like asset allocation), it won't reflect margin being used, you get hit with 2-factor prompts every time you open Empower, etc.

Mar 22, 2024 · I've completed the process of transferring 2x Roth IRA and 2x Trad IRA accounts from Vanguard over to Robinhood. It took a bit more time/effort than expected, but overall it was an easy $18.6k. I started with a trial run on our smallest account. I called Vanguard and asked them to convert my VTSAX mutual funds to ETF equivalent (VTI).

May 12, 2017 · And Robinhood makes money from interest, selling deal flow and Gold membership which starts at $10 a month and is basically margin on a fixed price. They also raised $100m+ at a 1.3B valuation. I think they will do really well.

Dec 22, 2020 · But back to the key point: 1.09% margin loans seem better than Robinhood's 2.5% margin loans ... both of which beat Vanguard's 100k-250k margin loan cost of 7%. Whichever place you pick, you'll need to apply for a margin account. Both Vanguard and IBKR ask about your investment experience and typical investment levels.

Feb 24, 2022 · Re: Robinhood and Beneficiaries « Reply #3 on: February 24, 2022, 03:48:40 PM » You can transfer your stocks to another brokerage without selling (I think the partial shares will get sold but it won't be that much).

Feb 16, 2024 · Taxes. Robinhood processes and treats the Robinhood Gold IRA Deposit Match as interest earned by the IRA account for tax reporting purposes. The interest amount is based on a percentage of contributions made into the IRA Account. The interest earned by the IRA account

Jan 30, 2024 · 2) If you are transferring in mutual funds, from say Vanguard, you'll first need to sell those because Robinhood can't transfer in mutual funds. So when you consider the settlement period of selling mutual funds, plus the ACAT transfer period, you could conceivably be out of the market for a bit and easily see the market go up 3% during that time.

Apr 19, 2017 · If anyone should need to enter extensive detailed transaction information (for example, lots of wash sales), most tax programs allow you to import or copy-paste in transaction information that is in CSV or spreadsheet format. As described below, Robinhood definitely provides an Excel file upon request.

Apr 14, 2024 · Eg: You complete and send the Transfer Funds form to Robinhood. Robinhood would then contact Chase, Chase would sell and send funds direct to Robinhood This achieves two things - 1. Most importantly - funds never leave the tax sheltered account umbrella. No impact to contribution limits, no taxable income created. 2.