The financial system is rigged in the favor of bigger players; especially stock market. Big players with a lot of capital can easily add “insurance” to their investments via hedging strategies that a small investor would not be able to utilize due to the high capital requirements currently in place. They are other regulations that make it tough for small players to get into the game such as the mark to market feature which abolishes/ makes one exempt from the “wash sale rule”; the requirements to get this is an uphill battle for a small investor.

On the surface wash sale rule seems to make sense but in reality it limits the amount of trades you can do especially in times of high volatility. And as Nassim Taleb mentions in his book “Antifragile” things that are harmed during times of high volatility are extremely “fragile”.

The technology is already there to make proper investing available to the masses; unfortunately regulations heavily hinders the feasibility for a small company to roll something like this out.