September 26, 2021
1. Do you have one or more online trading or investment accounts?
Yes, I have one or more accounts that I access online using a computer.
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?
Yes
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 had a pre-existing account and downloaded an app or visited a website to access my account
6. My goals for trading or investing in my online account are (check all that apply):
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.)
In January, I was financially impacted by my brokers decision to collude with various parties to restrict the ability to buy stocks that I had open positions in, a first for this supposed free market. This is clearly criminally negligent in and of itself. However, when taking into consideration those in leadership positions at that brokerage, when under investigation for their heinous activity, allegedly lied under oath about their involvement in said activity and have since faced zero repercussions, this dampens my faith in investment platforms that operate this haphazardly, as well as those responsible for regulating their activity and the market at large.
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.)
Im more vigilant about the ways in which market manipulation occur.
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 : 2-5 Years
Bonds : 1-2 Years
Options : 1-2 Years
Mutual Funds : None
ETFs : 1-2 Years
Futures : 1-2 Years
Cryptocurrencies : 2-5 Years
Commodities : 1-2 Years
ClosedEnd Funds : 1-2 Years
Money Market Funds : 1-2 Years
Variable Insurance Products : 1-2 Years
Business Development Companies : 1-2 Years
Unit Investment Trusts : 1-2 Years
10. What is your understanding, if any, of the circumstances under which trading or investing in your account can be suspended or restricted?
Various parties can collide behind the scene to orchestrate the market at their discretion, whilst not being subject to any real regulation or fear of meaningful repercussions.
11. What else would you like us to know positive or negative - about your experience with online trading and investing?
1. DRS should be made available at the broker level. I want my name on the shares I buy.
2. PFOF should be illegal.
3. Naked shorting should be illegal.
4. Dark pools should be shut down.
5. All trades should be on the lit market and not in small lot batches. My investment should mean something.
6. Fines against hedge funds should be 10x what they cost the public traders instead of the cost of doing business.