Interactive Brokers vs. robinhood

Interactive Brokers is appropriate for retail equity investing and pension accounts holding - totally appropriate. Institutional accounts and proprietary trading group accounts - appropriate for those managing risks themselves because there is no automatic or supervised control and you trade at your own discretion. Not appropriate - is you look for crypto trading with instruments not accepted by regulator authorities as featured instruments with acceptable risk, to make sustainable and regulated investments with the main aim to preserve capital. All not regulated instruments are not appropriate and it is good and professional.

robinhood has been great for me as a first time investor using "play money" outside of my main 401K and retirement. It has options for purchasing partial shares, which means you don't have to purchase a full, even share in order to invest. I love to option to buy and sell crypto so easily. Crypto prices move quickly. I can set alerts when I want to get in and for when I want to get out. The availability of index funds also balance it well. I like reading the articles and morningstar ratings that provide direction on market sentiment, fair value and quick earnings results.

Incentivized

• Large financial instruments are available for trading - options, forex, derivatives, USTs
• All main international exchanges are available to allocate
• Fast and stable user interface
• Fast connectivity
• Python and Java API
• Applications from Vendors
• Data feed on demand could be added
• Fast funds transfers and account set up
• Supported all types of account: retail, trading group, retirenment, institutional
• Fast quotes update without viable delay even for retail

• Simplification of design (classic multy window to plain colorful palette Z-focused)
• Choise of routes for order flow with clear comission cost
• International bonds inclusion
• Consider offering of CDS derivatives for ICE products
• ESG selection - CO2 allowances instruments
• Crypto wallets as a cource of margin connectivity are interesting for hybryd account
• Sponsorship for FINRA licenses for non-institutional customers

We use it and do not plan to switch. It fits all our current needs.

Reliable connection, fast interface, rapid data updates, lower comission costs that is all features coinsided at one place for Interactive Brokers trader workstation. Even account types offering is wider to include also trading group accounts not only retail, IRA 401. Interactive Brokers makes easy to enter the prop business or serve large family office needs as an adviser or discretionary mandate trader (EU)

• Scalability - easy managed exposure of any size
• ROI is sustainable, no exponencial growth but we get what is expected, not less SP500 return + KPI %
• Comission flow is very low as compared to 3 - 4 years before the date