Thank Goodness for No Commissions

Yesterday I documented that the number of Robinhood accounts has soared. Here is the annualized position turnover of Robinhood users.

Annualized Robinhood Position Turnover, red line 30 day average

Before this year, position turnover was somewhere around 100-200%, which is not that much different than most actively managed mutual funds.

However, since March, turnover has soared – hitting close to 1000% annualized. Today the 30 day average is close to 400%.

Again, this is not investing. This is trading. We’ll see later whether the RH users or the house is winning.

The Casino is Open!

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!!” – Casablanca

Here is the number of positions held by RobinHood “investors” over time.

You can see once we closed the number of positions soared by 100% very quickly once we closed down.

My guess is that gamblers started to use the stock market is they casino once real casinos were closed.