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+title: "Migrating from RobinHood to Public"
+date: 2022-04-14
+permalink: "/blog/migrating-from-robinhood-to-public"
+author: Benjamin Sanders
+catagories: RobinHood,Public,Stock-Trading
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+So, I finally made the decision to migrate my personal stock portfolio from RobinHood to Public. This decision wasn’t made in light of what happened during the whole GameStop fiasco or because I hate RobinHood. As a matter of fact I was considering getting out of managing my own stock portfolio all together now that I have a 401k. However, I do like being able to “be in the game” so to speak and maybe have a portion of my money growing rather then just sitting in a bank account somewhere.
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+## Making the Switch
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+For me the switch wasn’t that hard. I just used the Public app which I already have a brokerage account open with them. I initiated the transfer from there answered some questions about the brokerage account I was coming from (RobinHood) and now I wait.
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+## Why Make the Switch?
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+I decided to make the switch primarily because I like the community aspect of Public. It’s pretty cool loading up the site or the app and seeing the community page. As well as being able to follow people like [Graham Stephan](https://public.com/@GrahamStephan) and other investors. I still plan to be more of a long term investor but Public seems to offer more information that I can act on when making investment decisions.
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+![](/assets/images/Public-Community-Page.png)
+
+## No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
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+There’s the saying that if a service is free you’re the product but Public seems be different in that you can have the option of tipping them when you sale stock. Which, is a nice way to help out a service that provides a way for smaller, retail, investors to even have a chance of building personal wealth that was previously reserved for the elite stock brokers.
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+I’m sure Public isn’t perfect but I remain cautiously optimistic about it and hopefully will be a really long term thing.
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+I guess this is the first real blog post I’ve written on my site in a while so I thank you all who read it and if you haven’t yet signed up for Public and would like to give it a try. You can check it out here. We’ll both get a free stock when you deposit money in a new account.
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+Moving swiftly onwards from that little bit of shilling I do hope you have a wonderful day. :) -Ben
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