From there, you can backtest the idea to see if the trade has any statistical validity. If it does, you can take the next step. Quantopian will allow you to connect to a brokerage account (Robinhood or Interactive Brokers), where you can place orders and What Stripe did for easy payments, Robinhood is doing for free stock trading. This week the brokerage startup launched its platform so developers can bake its zero-commission stock trading into their products. Stop for a second and think about how big a Robinhood is an app built around one promise: no-fee stock trading. Robinhood launched in December 2014 This past week, I tested out the app with a nominal amount of cash (Business Insider journalists are prohibited from playing the market by policy There are nearly 340,000 people on the wait list to access the Robinhood Trading app. The legendary archer of Sherwood Forest is taking aim at the stock market. Robinhood is a new trading app that promises users free trades and no account minimums. Trading stocks on your iPhone without spending a fortune is finally here. And by that, we mean that Robinhood’s long-awaited app is finally available after about six months of beta testing, one-and-a-half years after the company was founded. Robinhood Robinhood, the no-fee online brokerage app, has partnered with Baidu Inc. to offer its U.S. stock trading service to customers in China. Chinese investors can buy any U.S. stocks or exchange traded funds without paying commission by downloading Baidu’s .
The word “free” gets tossed around a lot by companies advertising their stock trading apps. But with the historical necessity of broker commissions, free stock trading has always been an oxymoron. Even the deepest discount brokers tend to charge a Getty Images It's alive! (Or rather, it's "live.") Ever since its video appeared on vimeo.com about a year ago, individual investors have been hearing about a new stock trading service called "Robinhood" that promises fee-free investing. And now it's here. Robinhood Financial made news at the end of 2013 with the possibility of launching its commission-free Robinhood app. The company raised $3 million in seed funding in December 2013 from Index Ventures and Google Ventures. Initially planned to be launched Robinhood app: invest in the stock market for free. In this day and age, when breathing seems to be the only thing that we can do for free — it’s refreshing to know that a few good men still believe in free trading — and that by free, they still mean .