By a quirk of accidental data, Alphacution dramatically sharpens its estimate of Robinhood's engagement with index options since May 2021; an update that has implications for our overall estimate of retail engagement in index options...
Alphacution provides additional evidence - via Robinhood - that option order routing revenue, the primary source of PFOF, is being negatively impacted by retail adoption of 0DTE option trading - as well as emerging indications of a resurgence in crypto trading...
Public.com - the emerging retail brokerage platform that actually appears to be trying to "democratize finance" rather than merely pay lip service to the concept - launched option trading functionality in Dec 2023 with a brokerage model that is unique relative to all other retail brokerages. Alphacution provides context and exposes some fascinating details...
With latest data in hand, Alphacution shows that the zero-day option (0DTE) phenomenon has contributed to long-term declines in aggregate payment for order flow (PFOF) levels thereby causing a ripple of subtle and not-so-subtle impacts in the market ecosystem...
Alphacution details anomalous behavior between Robinhood, Morgan Stanley & Co, and other wholesale market makers in recent retail option order flow...
The Wall Street Journal's Gunjan Banerji uses Alphacution's estimates in "Some Amateur Investors Retreat From Markets."
There are two causes of the "giant sucking sound" that you hear - and need to pay attention to for the year ahead. The first is painfully obvious; the second should be (painfully obvious), but likely isn't. Alphacution makes its case...
Alphacution makes its case for where new market structure rules should, at the very least, be successful - as well as a clue for how our research influenced (and altered) Robinhood's business model...
Part II - Equity PFOF Volumes / Wholesaler Market Shares: Alphacution organizes and distills 33 months of payment for order flow (PFOF) data from 14 retail brokers and 13 wholesale market makers to place a wide-angle frame around the US Securities and Exchange Commission's upcoming proposals for a major equities market structure overhaul...
There was one fascinating set of details that didn't quite fit into last week's Q2 2022 update review of Robinhood relating to crypto wholesale market makers. Alphacution shares those details here...
