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To: Ymani Cricket

Tucker - “I just read that Robinhood’s real customer is not retail investors but the hedge funds and they sell data on trades to the hedge funds who use it to their advantage.”


1,289 posted on 01/28/2021 6:24:10 PM PST by bitt (Joe Biden has managed to take everything that is wrong with DC bureacracy and fit it into 1 cabinet)
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To: bitt

Robin Hood is a free app, right?

Then you know who the merchandise is.


1,290 posted on 01/28/2021 6:27:12 PM PST by sevlex
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To: bitt
Tucker - “I just read that Robinhood’s real customer is not retail investors but the hedge funds and they sell data on trades to the hedge funds who use it to their advantage.”

After the markets close, online brokers will accept buy and sell orders to be executed the following day. I have often wondered whether brokers use that information, aggregated, to plan their own activities.

1,350 posted on 01/28/2021 9:11:14 PM PST by AZLiberty (As of Monday, May 18, at 9:30 am, I'm a U.S. citizen. And I VOTED!)
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