Virtu Financial’s Latest Storyboard
Alphacution updates its ongoing review of Virtu Financial with the latest 2022 financial and operational data...
SEC Proposing Auctions?! Let’s Understand Liquidity Economics First
Though the financial press highlighted a proposal to consider auctions in US equities for retail order flow, the SEC actually proposed 6 areas of interest for market structure rule changes. Alphacution presents its case for what's truly at issue here...
Susquehanna’s Share of US Equity Options
Alphacution's estimates of market share for open interest of US equity options improves our understanding of market share by US equity option trading volume for SIG and, perhaps more importantly, others...
Zombie Roundabout: US Retail Stock Trading Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels?
With retail participation in the US stock market down from its pandemic era peak, Alphacution wonders how far it could go...
Ranking Robinhood’s Wholesale Market Makers
Alphacution's analysis and modeling of Robinhood's latest financial disclosures leads to a ranking of its wholesale market makers, along with a couple important side bars...
There’s Something IMC Financial Markets Wants You to Know…
Alphacution solves one of a few key mysteries that have lingered for the past couple years. Turns out, the solution is indirectly tied to other players in Alphacution's fiercely competitive structural alpha zone...
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...
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...
