* In the case of RobinHood, large wall street firms would not only buy the flows, but also act as the seller to the RH user.
* They would see what the RH user wanted to buy, then they would get it from the market at a better price and then sell it to the RH user at a slight profit.
* If they do enough volume of this, they make a bunch of money.
* This is also called “front-running” and depending on how exactly it’s carried out, might be illegal.
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