Forex order flow refers to the real-time record of buy and sell orders in the foreign exchange market. It represents the collective actions of currency market participants and provides invaluable ...

PFOF allows brokers to offer commission-free trades by routing orders to market makers. Investors often receive better prices than the NBBO via market maker payments. Critics argue PFOF may prevent ...

During the House Financial Services Committee's Thursday hearing on the recent GameStop stock frenzy, there was talk of a practice known as "payment for order flow" (PFOF). To anyone not fluent in the ...

In January 2021, the GameStop trading halt exploded across the headlines. Consumer advocates and the financial press pointed fingers at a number of industry players, paying particular attention to the ...

Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and sell ...

Payment for order flow (PFOF) is a system where exchanges or brokers route trades to specific market makers in exchange for a fee. PFOF can negatively affect high-frequency, arbitrage and day trading ...

Robinhood, the uber-popular brokerage, helped usher in a new era of commission-free trading. It pushed established financial institutions, such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity, to follow suit. Sadly, ...

I think there are two different intuitive models of payment for order flow. Let’s call them the Good Model and the Bad Model. The Good Model goes like this. Lots of retail investors go to their ...

Options prices are typically very efficient and premiums "price-in" the potential post-earnings moves with higher implied volatility in the front-month options on companies that are due to report.

Now that almost every brokerage has followed in the footsteps of Robinhood and adopted commission-free trading, how do these companies make money? One main source of revenue is from a small sum of ...

“Payment for order flow enables commission-free trading,” said Robinhood chief executive Vlad Tenev during Congressional testimony in February 2021 following the Gamestop debacle. While everyday ...