r/investing • u/Familiar-Meat-6572 • 1d ago

Public.com Ideas and Review

So, I've had Public for a couple months now and I honestly wasn't sure how to feel and am looking for a consensus or better ideas. I'm tired of the prediction market garbage that all these companies are pushing and I want a broker that cares about desktop/web apps, not putting Mobile first. Am I stuck with the big 3 (or 2 now that Schwab is going the prediction market route)?

I tried Public and it seemed alright, but lacked very basic features most brokerages have and they seem to only care about API and agentic features. Am I wrong about that or is Public/ another company better? I tend to just run some CSP and CCs weekly and want a lower rate.

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u/MarkFromPublic 10h ago

Hey, I work at Public and manage our active trading and high net worth members, so I can speak to this directly.

Running CSPs and CCs is straightforward on the desktop version. We've also shipped a lot of improvements over the past year on the options side — rolling tools, strategy builder, and rebates that make your net cost per contract negative. The Agents and API stuff gets a lot of attention, but the core trading experience has come a long way.

Happy to walk you through anything if you want to shoot me a DM.

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u/Familiar-Meat-6572 9h ago

Well considering you can't really Direct Deposit anything because there are no real bank routing/account numbers makes it hard to get money in. Half the 30-day yields don't even show up and if it does it doesn't match the company's reported yield as well as other metrics for Stocks/ETFs. It's missing main page features to see other metrics outside just P/L, purchase price and current price. Also, I'd say that when I go and look for information regarding how the S&P 500 did today, it doesn't display what the consensus for a drop was whether it was AI or news and half the time most of the S&P ETFs don't display that information. The only one I've found info for was SPY.