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Re:Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue from Bargain with ... by physguy1123 on Monday October 15, 2018 @11:29PM (#18226187)
If you're an HFT, you would much rather just pay for the order flow and not deal with all the shit that is retail (government, customers, all that shit). If you're some big retail firm, you're probably run by suits, way to beauracratic to run a difficult high-tech trading team, and any talent you got would get siphoned off to a good trading firm.
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Re:Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue from Bargain with ... by vasilipupkin on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:50AM (#18230320)
different competencies. Acquiring retail customers is very hard and is not something HFT firms have any special competency in.
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