What brokerage would would you recommend for a young first time investor?

A young, first time investor doesn’t need a fancy website. Have them open a Vanguard account and start pumping money into nice, broad, low cost index funds. He can decide to be clever later if he wants to lose to the market.

Sure, I have always used Vanguard… But really what makes it better than the other two?

WeBull and robinhood are worth a look too, in my opinion.

But the best answer is likely a vanguard acct with VTI and/or VOO shares.

As someone who has accounts with several different brokers including Vanguard and Charles Schwab, I like the Charles Schwab website better. I think it’s easier to use. I also like the Charles Schwab app. They have similar low-cost index funds.

Also, like the fact that Charles Schwab as a company isn’t as woke as Vanguard is.

Robinhood is the best but that could turn into a 10k lesson pretty fast.

i ditched vanguard for Schwab

vanguard does not allow any crypto stuff like BITO, IBIT, etc. or any leveraged ETFs.

I use E trade and Schwab. for 4 total accounts.

you can use vanguard if all you want is a basic index fund like VOO or QQQ.

Vanguard is owned by the shareholders who own the funds. The funds all own part of the company which is the opposite of most firms.

Which also means they are not beholden to shareholders and private parties continuously looking for larger profits

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BND or bust amirite? All a fella needs.

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VTI or VTSAX is what you mean.

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The weird thing is Vanguard is the largest shareholder of MSTR and their funds are loaded up with it. They should just come out of the bitcoin closet and stop paying Michael Saylor to buy it for them.

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Lol, mstr by market cap and insanity is the largest non S&P500 stocks.

Vanguard is the second largest brokerage and holder of ETFs in the world. They are hyper focused on passive ETFs tracking the total market, which includes MSTR.

They are purely holders because that is how passive funds work. This is one of the downsides of passive investing... You buy the whole market and it's current weighting. MSTR is part of that market. Just like they invest in oil companies, cigarette companies, and marijuana companies.

Vanguards passive funds are so massive they are basically the top 5 shareholder of every company.

I'm sure saylor and company has really appreciated the massive pump as they have been unloading their shares for dirty fiat as fast as they can. Which also explains why Saylor is no longer the largest shareholder. He has been unloading massively.

924 million dollars of sales

SEC Form 4 insider sales

Any of the three