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Lessons Learned Payment for Order Flow Gets Another Broker into Hot Water for Undisclosed Conflicts. The SEC found Lightspeed Trading, LLC (“Lightspeed”), formerly a registered broker-dealer, guilty of securities fraud for lying to customers and profiting from lower “market center fees” charged by its affiliate for executing trades. In 2012, Lightspeed started offering customers access to an equity trading platform that allowed them to select the exchange or trading venue for executing their orders. Unfortunately, that freedom of choice was an illusion. Lightspeed actually sent many ...

Share: This article originally appeared on Topstep.com Most of us start our trading journey with stocks. It’s the most obvious choice because it’s the only financial product that most of the general population understands. Our parents might have owned shares, we learned about stocks in our high school economics class, and we’re familiar with many of the largest companies in the stock market like Apple, Google, and ExxonMobil. Of those traders who stick it out long enough to learn about other products, such as futures, many end up making a move away from stocks. If you’re considering m...