August 27, 2021
1. Do you have one or more online trading or investment accounts?
Yes, I have one or more accounts that I access both online using a computer and using a mobile app.
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?
Less often than once a month
4. On average, how often are trades made in your online account, whether by you or someone else?
Less often than once a month.
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):
Save and grow my money for short-term goals (in the next year or two)
Save and grow my money for medium- to long-term goals
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.)
Im not aware of any such features on Fidelity or T Rowe Price which are the 2 online brokerages I use. I wouldnt be interested in these types of features as they seem more distracting than anything else.
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.)
N/A
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 : 5+ Years
Bonds : None
Options : 1-2 Years
Mutual Funds : 5+ Years
ETFs : 5+ Years
Futures : None
Cryptocurrencies : 2-5 Years
Commodities : None
ClosedEnd Funds : None
Money Market Funds : 5+ Years
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?
Illegal collusion by the DTCC, market makers, and hedge funds can result in restricting my ability to buy stock on certain platforms at times where it would expose BAD trades and irresponsible risk taking, like what happened in January with RH and other brokers restricting a basket of heavily shorted stocks. This has yet to be punished and its a complete joke that the powerful institutions can literally commit crime in plain sight to rig the game, brag about it on social media (Steve Cohen), and face nothing more than an ignorant theatre chorus of congressmen and congresswomen who largely have no clue what is really going on. DO YOUR JOB SEC
11. What else would you like us to know positive or negative - about your experience with online trading and investing?
DO YOUR JOB SEC The revolving door between the SEC, supposedly SROs, and Wall Street is comically corrupt. The fact that individual investors on social media can identify criminal behavior using nothing but publicly available information, more effectively than the SEC, is laughable. When will the US start putting white collar criminals, financial terrorists really, in jail??? The world is watching.