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Retail Investing Technology with Eric Shoykhet of Atom Finance

Technology has empowered the masses in many ways, and the world of investing is no exception. Retail investors now have tools available that rival those used by institutional investors… and the ease with which individuals can invest in the market has never been more pronounced.

Given this, and the timely backdrop of market volatility around certain stocks like GameStop (GME)… our guest is Eric Shoykhet, the founder and CEO of Atom Finance (App Store | Google Play), the fastest-growing investment research and portfolio management platform. Their mission is to empower retail investors through technology, and Eric had a tremendous amount of insight to offer on the retail investing landscape.

Payments & Fintech Insights In This Episode

  • What inherent disadvantages retail investors have when compared to institutional investors.
  • The story behind Atom Finance, and how it leverages technology and data to empower retail investors.
  • Eric’s thoughts on why the GameStop (GME) “short squeeze” happened, and how increasingly automated trading played a role.
  • What Eric sees in the future of retail investing technology, and how that will continue to shape markets.
  • With so much more!

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Industry Spotlight

Atom Finance

Headquartered in New York, NY, Atom Finance aims to build a community of informed investors by providing them with a knowledge platform for financial information.

Atom’s mission is to empower everyone to make informed investing decisions by democratizing access to institutional-quality investing resources. Atom’s platform offers an ever-growing arsenal of powerful research and portfolio monitoring tools, and the sleek user interface is optimized for productivity and works across devices. It offers a trove of institutional-quality data, documents, news, and events for companies, and allows for easy aggregation and comparison. Atom continues to add features that rival costly institutional products, such as the ability to search for keywords across all documents at once, and build financial models without the need for Excel. The company aims to become one of the one-stop investment research shops for the millions of investors not served by institutional platforms.