No idea whether it’s true, and I have no idea who the bad guys are here, but this thread is very entertaining if you enjoy high stakes financial heist plots
Toxic @toxic
26 Jan 2021
Step 0: Citadel pays Robinhood for order flow. Citadel gets to see RH's orders a few milliseconds before they're filled. Citadel may choose to front-run some of those trades. Step 1: RH's customers and WallStreetBets start manipulating $GME. This is happening in the open.

Jan 28, 2021 · 11:28 AM UTC

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It's the old "if you're not paying, you're the product" (Also a great use case of leveraging customer data :-o )
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This is good stuff for a movie like “the wolf of Wall Street Millenial version” 😅
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I think the executive statement is “it’s vampires all the way down”. The more I learn about the stock market, the more I get the impression that there really aren’t many “good guys”, just different shades of, well, shady.
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