​Upgrade to Robinhood Gold

​In this article, we are going to provide step by step instructions on how to upgrade to Robinhood Gold.

• Open the Robinhood app on your iPhone.
• Once the app is open, you will see several icons at the very bottom.
• At the very bottom right corner of the screen, you will see an Account icon which is in the shape of a person.
• Tap the Account icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.
• You will now see several tabs – Free Stocks, Investing, Transfers, Statements & History, Settings and Help.
• Tap Settings which is the fifth option from the top.
• You will now see three sections – Account, Security and Preferences.
• Under Account, you will see three options – Account Information, Robinhood Gold, Notifications & Messages.
• Tap Robinhood Gold which is the second option.
• Tap Continue on the next screen.
• You will see a brief description of Robinhood Gold as well as the benefits of Robinhood Gold.
• Tap Continue at the very bottom.
• It then gives you an option to opt in to margin. You will see two options at the bottom.
• If you prefer to have margin, tap Turn on Margin.
• Robinhood will check whether your account is suitable for Margin Investing.

Federal regulations require you to have $2000 in your account to be suitable for investing on margin. If your account balance is less than $2000, you will be given an option to deposit additional funds to bring the account balance to $2000.

• If you would like to opt out of margin, tap Continue Without Margin.

Margin investing is an optional Gold feature and can be enabled at any time in Settings.

• Review the Robinhood Gold Agreement.
• If you agree to the terms and conditions, tap Accept.

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