Nearly Half of Robinhood Users Have Low FICO Scores. Should They Be Investing?

The brokerage app Robinhood represents both the best and worst of investing today. The January stock market uprising in GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: AMC) might have been fueled by Reddit's WallStreetBets chat room, but it was Robinhood that had unlocked the gates and ushered the mob inside. When it finally blocked or limited the ability to trade GameStop, AMC, and a handful of other shares, investors felt betrayed.