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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by scythe on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:39PM (#22428223)
>Most (if not all) of WSB trades are done through the Robinhood app. Robinhood users are not charged transaction fees executing their trades, they can do this because they sell their flow (these orders) to HFT firms.

Doesn't this make it more likely, rather than less likely, that HFT algos are affected by WSB madness?

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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by is0tope on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:43PM (#22430524)
I'm guessing that they are implying that the HFTs already know that these trades came from robinhood (because of order flow feed) , and therefore would discount them heavily on having inside knowledge.
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