Robinhood Drops a Load on Morgan Stanley
Alphacution details anomalous behavior between Robinhood, Morgan Stanley & Co, and other wholesale market makers in recent retail option order flow...
0DTE SWAG, Part II: Retail Share of Index Option Volume
Alphacution improves its estimate for retail traders' share of US equity index option volume...
Retail Equity Option Review – Q2 2023 (Updated)
Alphacution updates its comprehensive review of retail option activity - including breakdowns by wholesale market maker and retail broker - through June 2023...
Guest Post: Tactical Impacts of 0DTE Boom
Guest Post: Derivatives specialist, Don Dale, shares key missing pieces to the 0DTE option puzzle...
Top 10 ETFs for Traders, And Then Some…
Alphacution makes a case for the best - and worst - ETFs for active traders, even at the risk of increased market concentration...
Market Concentration: 0DTE Option Volume by Product
Based on new data, Alphacution estimates the total zero days to expiration (0DTE) option volume attributable to index-related products...
Retail Stock Traders: Return to 201X?
Are retail investors becoming "burned out" on stocks? Alphacution makes its case...
Alphacution Press: Time Magazine on Peak6 Co-Founder Jenny Just
"I tell women, ‘You don’t have to be a trader the rest of your life. But if you can understand options, you can sit at any table in any industry, in any position, and understand what’s going on with the money. And that’s where all the decisions are.' "Jenny Just, Co-Founder, Peak6 This one lands a little close to home for me... Jenny Just and I were contemporaries - in both cases, our first jobs out of college; [...]
US Stock Market Has Sprung A Strange Leak
The US equity securities "universe" demonstrated an unprecedented expansion from mid-2020 through mid-2022. Alphacution illustrates how this macro trend has turned - along with possible impacts - via the data of leading wholesale equity market makers...
PFOF Cage Match, Q1 2023
Alphacution shares highlights - and lots of charts - from the most recent trove of PFOF data...