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HOOD.US
id: 824, Created by Stan Vick, Scout

Robinhood (HOOD) Best Execution Case

N.D. California
Court
4:20-cv-09328
Case number
US-based Users who traded through Robinhood between September 1, 2016, and June 16, 2020, suspect the Company's receipt of payment for order flow was causing them to get unfavorable market prices on their orders.
  • Robinhood, in its capacity as a broker, received payment for order flow from market makers to which it routed its client’s orders. Meanwhile, $HOOD was bound by a duty of best execution.
  • Users believed that his market orders would be executed by Robinhood at the best available price, and he was unaware that the Company was receiving compensation directly related to their orders as payment for order flow.
  • Users did not know that Robinhood’s receipt of payment for order flow was causing him to receive such unfavorable market prices on his orders.
  • By receiving higher payments for order flow than its competitors, Robinhood negatively impacted, among other things, its clients’ order execution and chances for price improvement.
Users suspect Robinhood's agents and executives knew the 'commission-free' trading promise wasn't really free and that the fees imposed on trading firms resulted in poor execution for clients.

As a result, Users suspect that Robinhood misled them about "commission-free" trading and failed to provide the best execution, causing them material harm in the form of economic loss due to their orders going unfilled, underfilled, filled at a sub-optimal price, or filled in a manner that adversely affected the order’s performance post-execution.
Alleged Offence
Misleading Statements
Financial Misrepresentation
Failure to Disclose
Omissions
Suspected Party
Directors
Management
Security Type
Stocks
Trade Direction
Long
Shock Event Date
16 June 2020
Filing date
23 December 2020
Judge
Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
Collecting participants…
Created by Stan Vick, Scout

Case history

Stan Vick
16 September 2023
$HOOD User Case-related Update:
Massachusetts' highest appellate court upheld a unique fiduciary rule, aligning broker-dealers like $HOOD with the same standard as investment advisers, and ruling in favor of the state's securities regulator in a closely observed case initiated by Robinhood LLC.

Robinhood Markets Inc

Robinhood Markets, Inc. operates financial services platform in the United States. Its platform allows users to invest in stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), options, gold, and cryptocurrencies. ...

    Ticker
    HOOD.US
    ISIN
    US7707001027
    CIK
    1783879
    Sector
    Technology
    Industry
    Software-Infrastructure
    Country
    USA
    Address
    85 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, United States, 94025