We Have Doug Cifu’s Number, Too
A mini-case study on Virtu Financial, based on updated modeling through year-end 2020, cooked up special for fans of @dougielarge...
Note to The Market Structure Club on Comparative Order Routing Rates
Following an impromptu gaggle of market structure nerds on the new social media app, Clubhouse, featuring Larry Tabb (Head of Market Structure Research, Bloomberg Intelligence) and Alex Gerko (CEO, XTX Markets), Alphacution offers a comparative ranking of 2020 retail order routing rates...
Interview Tuesday: Alphacution Joins Options Insider Radio
Exploring the data that is lying around “hidden in plain sight” in the options market on this episode of Options Insider Radio with Paul Rowady from Alphacution Research Conservatory. Hosted by Mark Longo
Pulling Your Strings: How Retail Brokers Influence Trading Behavior (Or Not), By Design
Alphacution adds to its library of evidence that retail brokerage platforms specifically decide how, when, and if to influence the trading behavior of their clients...
Inspired by Renaissance Technologies: In Pursuit of the Omnitrade (and an Upgraded Map)
Inspired by Renaissance Technologies - as described in Greg Zuckerman's book, "The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution - Alphacution leverages the concept of "factor dimensionality" to make a significant enhancement to its ecosystem map framework.
Summary of Robinhood’s Legal Woes
Today - February 26, 2021 - at 12:13pm ET - in what appears to be a well-managed front run of press collaboration, the Wall Street Journal published "Robinhood in Talks to Settle Finra Probes Into Options-Trading Practices, Outages" based on a filing that says the company is also being examined by the SEC, states. Here are the key parts of that filing - and then some...
Price Improvement: A Sacrificial Cost of the Trade
Alphacution provides numbers, pictures and rationale for "price improvement" - in the context of captive retail order flow - having an indelible function that is different than what you have been told by those who traffic in it...
Now You See Me: What The Bloomberg Opinion Guy Misses About Market Structure Mechanics
Leveraging numbers and narrative, Alphacution builds a higher-dimension analysis of market structure mechanics on top of Bloomberg Opinion's Matt Levine's recent manifesto on payment for order flow (PFOF). Disclaimer: No unsolicited elbows were thrown during the creation of this Feed post...
More Than $2.7 Billion in Payments for Order Flow 2020: Here Are The Breakdowns… (Updated)
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the [...]
Got Hood-lash Yet? 2020 Order Routing Revenue – Part I
This is the fuel that ignites the chaos. Without it, the New Market Kamikazes run into the friction that keeps the rubber on the road...