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Re:When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich – Elm P... by TacticalCoder on Sunday December 15, 2024 @12:40PM (#42424702)
> How do you fontrun orders? You can only take action after you see the order.

PFOF:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_for_order_flow

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Re:When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich – Elm P... by n2d4 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @01:30PM (#42425025)
PFOF does not frontrun — it wouldn't even make sense to frontrun. Retail orders tend to be bad; it makes no sense to frontrun a bad order, especially if you're the market maker who's fulfilling it too.
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