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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:21PM (#25947490)
> we can see that this idea that the stock is too risky to quote is not true because there is a two-sided market in it right now

On exchanges. Those are buyers and sellers as well as market makers. Robinhood connects to a subset of the latter.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by whimsicalism on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:57PM (#25948129)
> Those are buyers and sellers as well as market makers.

Nope, pretty much just market makers.

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