by Tyler Durden
Sunday, May 09, 2021 - 04:13 PM
A little over a month ago, at the end of March, we first pointed out something troubling for the bulls: after leading the market in terms of both sentiment and volume, retail participation had collapsed. This was most obvious when looking at OCC option data, where SpotGamma noted a sense of decay or attrition happening on the call side.
Bloomberg also picked up on this, warning of call fatigue as call option volumes - the preferred investment instrument of millions of GenZ and Millennial traders - had fallen off a cliff.
Now, it s JPMorgan s turn to report what our readers knew almost two months ago, namely that the latest data reveals that US retail investors share in
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Vatic Investments has hired former Citadel and D.E. Shaw quant Allen Poteshman as CIO.
Poteshman, a former finance professor, will launch a new statistical arbitrage strategy.
Its the latest in a string of hires for the high-speed systematic trading firm.
High-speed quant trading firm Vatic Investments is launching a statistical arbitrage effort, and it has hired a former finance professor who worked at Citadel and D.E. Shaw to lead the charge as its chief investment officer.
Allen Poteshman joined Vatic Investments, previously known as Vatic Labs, last week to oversee its overarching investments but also to build out a new stat arb strategy, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
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Payment for order flow (PFOF) is the compensation brokerages earn by having third-party firms execute client orders.
Payment for order flow can impact an investor s final per-share cost, especially if they trade actively.
Though PFOF can affect costs, it doesn t jeopardize your transactions or account security.
In early 2021, online investment apps like Robinhood started getting scrutinized for a behind-the-scenes system called payment for order flow (PFOF). The process involves them routing stock or other trade orders from their clients to outside firms, who actually carry out the trade. These third-party companies pay your broker for routing your order to them.
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GME is back on Robinhood. But so are the SEC and class-action lawyers.
GameStop shares are back on their rocket, after millennial trading app Robinhood decided it would, after all, let its customers ride the stock all the way to the moon or to a fiery crash. Alas, for Robinhood, it may already be too late.
“Brokers are now ‘protecting’ customers as a facade so that they can appease their institutional backers,” one individual trader told Bloomberg. “The entire community is outraged….”