This year, online Robinhood and its millions of younger-than-average customers have found themselves at the centre of attention that is comic and tragic.
"Robinhood: 'We now allow teenagers with their parents' credit cards to trade stocks'" went the April headline on satire site Stonk Market. Two months later, the headlines were far more sobering, after a 20-year-old killed himself, leaving behind a note about his negative Robinhood balance.
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