EST. MMXXVI · A PUBLIC RECORD
2 CONFESSIONS · 42 CASESConfess
CR-03419.07.MMXXVI

I gamified a brokerage. Confetti on your first trade, push alerts on price swings, a leaderboard of the day's most-traded stocks — every pattern borrowed from apps built for compulsion, aimed at first-time investors with rent money. Our north-star metric was trading frequency. Frequency is how beginners lose.

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Source Massachusetts Securities Division administrative complaint, Robinhood Financial, E-2020-0047 (2020)

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Predatory designEngagement optimizationVariable rewards

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