Finance · Channel report
What people complain about in Investing
WaveSeek read 4,887 public posts about Investing over 30 days and found 815 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 17 September 2026 · 7 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-17. Peak 316 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved -24%. A growth figure only appears here when it survives a baseline floor, a source-change check and a credibility ceiling — most channels most weeks show nothing, and that is the honest answer.
The evidence chain
Every complaint below came out of this. Nothing is estimated; each step is a count.
- 4,887posts ingested about Investing30-day window, after excluding 264 news-wire and video posts
- 1,963read by the classifier40% of them
- 815were genuine complaints42% of what was read
Mentions here exclude news wires and video titles: somebody reporting on Investing is not somebody having a problem with it. The Trends screen inside the app counts those too, because it measures attention rather than frustration — which is why the two numbers differ and why this page says which one it is using.
What people actually complain about
The 8 most frequent complaint clusters of 30 found, phrased by the classifier from the posts themselves. The links go to the original post — not to a summary of it.
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Broken account linking after app redesign
New overhaul update — Ever since fidelity did their new major update and changed how the app looks and works, I’ve…
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No accessible human customer support
Bad. Impossible to contact a human being. Still no human contact 6 hours later. Been two weeks and no pr…
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Unresponsive customer support and fake bot accounts
Get rid of the fake bot farms(millions of fake bots) & get some customer support — Webulls customer support…
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4
Missing advanced order types in trading platforms
I would love to be able to use One-Cancels-the-Other (OCO) / Bracket Orders
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Lack of human support for high-balance accounts
The services are smooth and exceed the UX available on other platforms or from established institutions. There are thin…
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Unhelpful customer support
Not helpful to help with issues
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Long waitlist for financial product access
Love it! The app is very user friendly. I would love to be off of the wait list for the Robinhood Gold credit card though…
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Slow and inconsistent trade execution pricing
Robinhood legend buy and sell of market is extremely slow. It almost seems like the backend is scalping the market buys/s…
The count is over every post in the cluster. The links are a sample of them, capped at three, and never imply the list is complete.
Who is already there
6 apps measured in this channel from their own recent store reviews. Ratings are computed from the reviews WaveSeek ingested in the window, not read off a store listing.
| App | Rating | Reviews read | 4★ and up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robinhood: Trading & Investing | 4.2★ | 96 | 79% |
| Stash: Investing made easy | 4.4★ | 76 | 83% |
| Fidelity Investments | 3.3★ | 64 | 48% |
| Webull: Investing & Trading | 2.6★ | 12 | 42% |
| Acorns: Save & Invest Money | 2.7★ | 7 | 43% |
| Schwab Mobile | 1.9★ | 7 | 14% |
Search demand
196,567 Google searches a month on average, from Google Ads keyword volume — the one number on this page you can check against a source that is not us.
Twelve months of monthly volume, ending 2026-08 for the keywords investing, investing app.
Searches peak in March and bottom out in November, a 43% swing across the year.
What this page does not tell you
Four competitors in this category print a market size on a page like this one. We do not, because we cannot measure one: mention counts, complaint counts and search volume are not a market size, and a dollar figure built from them would be a guess wearing a decimal point. The same goes for revenue projections, customer demographics and funding comparables.
Everything above is a count of public posts and reviews over a stated window. It is evidence of what people said, not a prediction of what will sell.
See Investing change
This page is a snapshot. Inside WaveSeek the same channel is live: the complaint list is re-clustered every six hours, competitor ratings are tracked week over week, and saved ideas report what moved since you saved them.
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