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 ...

Robinhood’s zero-commission trading model came under scrutiny earlier this year during the WallStreetBets-fueled trading frenzy in GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) and other so-called “meme” stocks. The zero ...

The GameStop (GME) story has fueled interest in the once-arcane process known as payments for order flow, an industry practice that exploded in 2020 amid the retail investor frenzy over the stock ...

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, ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Directed order flow occurs when a customer's order to buy or sell securities is ...

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 ...

Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, called payment for order flow “an inherent conflict of interest.” By Matt Phillips Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and ...

For years, paying for order flows allowed firms to centralize customers’ orders for another firm to execute. Such allowed smaller firms to use economies of scale of larger firms. Such enables small ...