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Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and sell ...

Are you a demanding trader? If the answer is yes, this book has been written for you. This is the natural evolution of the Wyckoff Methodology, a technical analysis-based approach to trading the ...

The GameStop (GME) story has fueled interest in the once-arcane process known as payments for order flow, an industry practice that exploded in 2020 amid the retail investor frenzy over the stock ...

Markets are a means, not an end. Access to investing, therefore, is a means to achieving an outcome. The debate around payment for order flow seems to have lost that critical point, centering on ...

Robinhood’s zero-commission trading model came under scrutiny earlier this year during the WallStreetBets-fueled trading frenzy in GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) and other so-called “meme” stocks. The zero ...

During the House Financial Services Committee's Thursday hearing on the recent GameStop stock frenzy, there was talk of a practice known as "payment for order flow" (PFOF). To anyone not fluent in the ...

The new Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler has said that one of his first acts may be to ban payment for order flow for retail trades in US equity markets. That would be a big ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A key EU lawmaker is set to back calls for a formal ban on brokers selling customers’ share trades to market ...