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I'm pretty sure that most retail brokers will do this, and always have done this - otherwise the cost per transaction makes retail share trading entirely (even more) pointless.
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Yeah, the brokers will net out - internally if possible, and on a dark pool if not - to minimize transaction fees.
Those pools are used partly to minimize price impact because that reduces adverse selection. The article is complaining that this weakens the short squeeze, but it also improves the execution price for the buyers. You can't have it both ways.
As for whether Citadel are dumping retail sells on the market to drive the price down, but keeping all the buys ... I doubt their HFT arm coordinates with their hedge fund, and those buys have to go somewhere. The idea that the high-frequency traders are going to take a massive unhedged short position (selling to retail) so that a different desk can avoid losing money on their existing medium- to low-frequency short position is ... implausible. Compliance and Risk would both be shitting bricks.
useless
gme could really go to the moon today after the latest news about robinhood broke last night, it seems all people using robinhood are actually only holding cfd's not real shares, so the 20mn+ shares bought and held by wallstreetbets people were never filled in the market, or most of them weren't
i believe they were saying that robinhood do this for all their positions, people were advised to move shares out of robinhood asap and force them to purchase shares in the market to transfer to other brokers, obviously if this is the case with all shares robinhood could well be fucked so if you are holding positions with robbing hoods might be a good time to start thinking about moving cash and positions out in case they do go tits up and lock your cash and shares up
if people start using other brokers ( non cfd brokers ) then real shares will start trading on the exchanges and the squeeze might happen, previously citadel bought shares in dark pools and sold on the open market so all the upwards pressure didn't really happen
today could see the start of a new part of the gme story
*i'm not invested in gme, just been watching with interest for a couple of weeks now
this is not financial advice, do your own reasearch and have a read about it,
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