August 25, 2021
1. Do you have one or more online trading or investment accounts?
Yes, I have one or more accounts that I access online, either using a computer or a mobile app but I also access the account(s) in other ways (e.g., by calling or visiting in person).
2. If your response to Question 1 is Yes, do you think you would trade or invest if you could not do so online using a computer or using a mobile app?
No
3. On average, how often do you access your online account?
Daily/more than once a day
4. On average, how often are trades made in your online account, whether by you or someone else?
Once to a few times a week.
5. If you access your account online, did you have the account first, and only began to access it electronically later? Or did you open the account with the idea that you would access it electronically immediately?
I downloaded an app or visited a website first, and then opened up an account with the company
6. My goals for trading or investing in my online account are (check all that apply):
Other
If Other, Explain:
Act as a check to a rigged system the SEC refuses to fix.
7. What would you like us to know about your experience with the features of your online trading or investment platform? (Examples of features are: social networking tools games, streaks, or contests with prizes points, badges, and leaderboards notifications celebrations for trading visual cues, like changing colors ideas presented at order placement or other curated lists or features subscription and membership tiers or chatbots.)
My experience with online retail trading is that retail traders are at a disadvantage, and that brokerages reserve the right to illegally refuse our right to buy whatever stocks we want, at whatever price. My experience is that free markets are an illusion, and that media is a shill propaganda horn for the wealthy.
8. If you were trading or investing prior to using an online account, how have your investing and trading behaviors changed since you started using your online account? (For example, the amount of money you have invested, your interest in learning about investing and saving for retirement, the amount of time you have spent trading, your knowledge of financial products, the number of trades you have made, the amount of money you have made in trading, your knowledge of the markets, the number of different types of financial products you have traded, or your use of margin.)
I was not interested in investing until modernized mobile apps started coming out.
9. How much experience do you have trading or investing in the following products (None, 12 months, 1-2 years, 2-5 years, 5+ years):
Stocks : 1-2 Years
Bonds : None
Options : None
Mutual Funds : None
ETFs : None
Futures : None
Cryptocurrencies : 1-2 Years
Commodities : None
ClosedEnd Funds : None
Money Market Funds : None
Variable Insurance Products : None
Business Development Companies : None
Unit Investment Trusts : None
10. What is your understanding, if any, of the circumstances under which trading or investing in your account can be suspended or restricted?
I fully understand that the rules of the game will change and retail can be restricted at a whim. I also understand the obscure 25k day trader requirement is for the benefit of algo trading organizations, and to keep the little guy from capitalizing.
11. What else would you like us to know positive or negative - about your experience with online trading and investing?
I want the SEC to know that GameStop is the only play. I know the SEC is an illusion. That your organization functions to disproportionately favor establishment investors, and to create an illusion of a free and fair market so retail can continue to be exploited. If the SEC wont do anything. Then its up to retail to hold GameStop until the system shatters. Consider this new generations of retail traders to be the check the SEC claims to be.