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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by coredog64 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:16AM (#25942010)
Dueling Twitter posts:

https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1354129838806872073?s...

I’m gonna go with Matt Levine over a Twitter rando, especially since the step 0 notes something that is explicitly illegal (front running)

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by clevernapkins on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:17AM (#25944205)
Front running is illegal indeed. But it would be possible to use Robinhood's order flow data to detect momentum and decide to hold a position from that. Small difference but the effect is the same
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