Recent Bitcoin fork/why didnt I get credit? I am new to this crypto currency thing and am soooo confused but learn more and more everyday! What I am trying to figure out now is:


I own a fraction of a Bitcoin on Coinbase. I look at coin base as my “ETrade”. I can just buy and sell there, is there a better place and if so why is the other place better?
Recently, in November, Bitcoin had a fork. I was under the impression during a fork it is just like a “split”. I thought I would get equal “shares” of Bitcoin under a different symbol and/or Blockchain. I do not see where I received anything. Why?
Should I hold my coins elsewhere to take advantage of forks? If so, where? 


Thank you so much for trying to clear up my spinning head!
If you had your coins in coinbase, you won't be credited as coinbase owns your private keys. To get your hard fork credits, you needed to have your funds in a external wallet with access to your private keys. After a fork happens, you can download a wallet that supports the new coin and import your private keys into it.