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77% Believe Robinhood Shut Down Was Market Manipulation

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Robinhood definitely caused a stock market shakeup. Invisibly polled over 1300 people using its Realtime Research tool to find out what people really think about it and the results are surprising. Not that 77% of those surveyed thought the shutdown was market manipulation -- we expected that -- but in how many people thought the whole situation was a good thing.

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Here’s what Invisibly learned:

  • 67% had some level of positive sentiment - 39% thought it was exciting and good for investors and 28% thought that despite the chaos it’s good to shake up the traditional way the market operates.
  • 41% of current investors feel the shakeup is exciting and good for...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available.FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid