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Roger Hamilton
Founder of Genius Group, GeniusU & Entrepreneur Resorts
Roger Hamilton, a social entrepreneur based in Bali, is dedicated to fostering the global growth of the entrepreneur movement through his three businesses. Entrepreneurs Institute, with a community spanning over 1,000,000 in 90 countries, provides various support programs for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Resorts offers entrepreneur-focused facilities in picturesque locations worldwide. GeniusU, a fast-growing tech startup, offers entrepreneurs an AI assistant facilitating connections, opportunities, and knowledge. Hamilton has a diverse background, from studying Architecture at the University of Cambridge to founding companies like Genius Group Ltd and contributing to organizations like Talent Dynamics and Wealth Dynamics. He envisions entrepreneurs as pivotal in addressing global challenges and anticipates a surge to 1 billion entrepreneurs worldwide by 2020.
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Thanks for the hundreds of replies and screenshots. Super-helpful. Based on your feedback, here's a ranking on which brokers are creating sell-side imbalances and terrible customer service for you, our $GNS investors, and which are doing a great job maintain a fair market and taking care of you:
The worst four offenders are:
Schwab @CharlesSchwab - Taken away buy button for months, forces you to call a 1-800 number to buy. Easy to sell with sell button.
Fidelity @Fidelity - Taken away buy button for months, forces you to call a 1-800 number to buy. Easy to sell with sell button.
Vanguard @Vanguard_Group - Taken away buy button for months, forces you to call a 1-800 number to buy. Easy to sell with sell button.
Robinhood @RobinhoodApp - Only lets you buy if you have cleared funds. Doesn't require for any other stock. Easy to sell with a click.
We will be sending all four a demand letter today including your comments relevant to each. There is no legitimate reason to skew the market - and even if they think there is, there should be equal treatment to both buy and sell. Either buttons both sides, or call in both sides. This doesn't just affect their clients. It affects the entire fair trading of $GNS stock for ALL our investors.
We will post the demand letters online tomorrow, and give you a link to be able to send the letter so if you're a client of @CharlesSchwab, @Fidelity, @Vanguard_Group or @RobinhoodApp you can notify them action is being taken and for them to escalate this to their boss. We are also requesting a litigation hold on documents between these brokers and any third parties related to $GNS.
Between Genius and our investors we will kick up enough of a stink that they will be forced to play fair.
We remain receptive to any of the four brokers communicating here. The only response so far has been from @CharlesSchwab who messaged "Thank you for reaching out. We are happy to address any concerns you have with trades at 800-435-4000."
That would be funny if this wasn't so serious.
While our legitimate investors are waiting on a 1-800 number to place a legitimate buy order, broker-dealers are placing and cancelling thousands of trades per second designed to push our stock price down as per the data detailed in our lawsuit.
Special mention also to the brokers who are treating our stock and investors fairly, and giving them equal opportunity to buy and sell $GNS - Including WeBull @WebullGlobal, Interactive Brokers @IBKR, Public @public, ETrade @etrade, Trading212 @Trading212 and all the other brokers who have been mentioned by our investors. Many thanks.
I recommend everyone stuck with one of the brokers giving you a hard time to get an account set up with one of these fair-playing brokers.
Much appreciated to all of you for the feedback. We are not the small guys anymore. We are a formidable army.
After the filing of our $GNS lawsuit below, a message for our long-term shareholders: (1) First, THANK YOU for your ongoing support through the darkest days (and for those who lost and left, know the Class Action seeks to recover your losses during the Class Period from April 2022 to May 2025 - all of them for everyone - and this period may very well extend). (2) Second, this is just the FIRST MOVE. We are now going after the entire food chain, and we need your help:
We are putting on notice ANY and ALL BROKERS who have TAKEN AWAY THE BUY BUTTON on $GNS (while keeping the sell button). We consider this to be ILLEGAL MARKET MANIPULATION and demand they immediately reinstate the buy button and provide all our investors with a fair market.
We have had reports from our investors on the following brokers who have at some time or other taken away the buy button / forcing our $GNS investors to call in their buy orders while keeping the sell button, creating ongoing one-sided sell pressure of GNS shares:
Robinhood @RobinhoodApp Schwab @CharlesSchwab Fidelity @Fidelity Vanguard @Vanguard_Group Interactive Brokers @IBKR
If you are a client of one of these brokers (or others), could you please DROP A MESSAGE BELOW to let me know if - as of today - who your broker is and are you able to place a buy and sell order on $GNS with equal ease online? Or if you still have no buy button and find it much more difficult to buy vs sell your GNS shares?
I'm looking for both positive feedback for those brokers who are delivering a fair market, as well as negative feedback for those who are still providing an imbalanced (and obviously unfair) trading experience.
I've also copied in the X handles of the highlighted brokers above so the managers of those account have their own golden opportunity to drop a comment and give us good news you're responding to investors interests of a fair market.
I'll be reading every comment. And we will be taking IMMEDIATE action (ie. BEFORE THE END OF THIS WEEKEND) against any and all brokers where we receive feedback their buy buttons on $GNS are still off.
We will also give a thank you to each broker who has reconsidered / reinstated the buy button for $GNS.
Please give your honest feedback. Don't worry about your broker getting mad at you. There is ZERO reason for any broker to deliver an imbalanced trading experience on $GNS that leads to market manipulation, whatever their excuse. In fact, it's illegal.
Let's work together on this. Not just for you, or me, or Genius. Let's do this for a fair market - A clean, honest, transparent market. It's a long road. But together we can do this. Thank you!
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