Retail Equity Option Flows: Finding a New Limit?
Alphacution updates its "retail option flow factor" analysis, in part, as preparation for Robinhood's upcoming Q3 2021 earnings release...
Changing of the Guard: Can Structural Alpha Be Bought?
Top Wall Street analysts claim that technology development is driving banks. Alphacution illustrates how banks have all but lost the tech battle in a critical corner of the market ecosystem...
Alphacution Joins Fintech Blueprint Podcast on Crypto Market Structure
Alphacution sits down with fintech and crypto expert, Lex Sokolin, and his Fintech Blueprint podcast for a wide ranging conversation on Robinhood and crypto market structure...
What is Alphacution? A Client Testimonial
Life is like "Fletcher," until you figure out where you fit into the puzzle. This client testimonial is a dividend from Alphacution's puzzle-solving pursuits...
Optiver Weighs In…
First HRT. Then Jump. Now, Optiver joins the chorus representing a collective "squeal" by a subset of secretive prop firms attempting to influence changes to US equity and options market structure...
Alphacution Press: Protocol Highlights Crypto PFOF
Fintech reporter, Tomio Geron, from Protocol – a new media company from the publisher of POLITICO focusing on the people, power and politics of tech – published “Regulators are going after payments for stock orders. What about crypto?” on September 16, 2021 based in large part on Alphacution’s research.
Virtu Americas: Lessons in Risk Disposal (Updated)
Alphacution delivers a new comparison of Virtu Americas and Citadel Securities to explore the objectives of risk warehousing and risk disposal...
Who’s Playing Championship Tetris? Gabe Plotkin, Stevie Cohen, or Ken Griffin?
A master class in risk management was performed during the peak of the GameStop meme stock frenzy. The question is: Who performed it?
Crypto Wholesaling Takes Center Stage
Alphacution has written recently about the emerging evidence of "crypto PFOF." Based on Robinhood's latest earnings and other regulatory data, Alphacution takes that recent analysis a step further to illustrate the emerging significance of wholesale market making in cryptocurrencies and the players behind it...
Jump Trading to Regulators: Lit Markets Are Too Toxic For Us (UPDATED)
Alphacution provides an analysis of Jump Trading's recent announcement - via WSJ - that it intends to enter the equity wholesaling arena...
