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...
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...
HOOD-lashed! Crypto PFOF is Here…
Like the Lock Ness monster and Big Foot, Alphacution has found evidence of crypto PFOF...
Alphacution Press: Motley Fool on Robinhood’s Complicated Relationship With Its Customers
The Motley Fool's, Jason Hawthorne, leverages Alphacution's research on comparative retail trading velocities to help showcase "3 Numbers That Should Shock Robinhood Shareholders."
Alphacution Press: Fortune on Robinhood IPO, PFOF in Spotlight
Robinhood IPO puts the secretive practice of ‘payment for order flow’ in the spotlight. Here’s how it works... By Fortune finance reporter, Jessica Mathews
Happy Robinhood IPO Day, Suckers! Alphacution Publishes “The Robinhood Effect”
In this 193-page, 272-exhibit, 30,800-word case study, “The Robinhood Effect,” Alphacution brings together data and modeling from 25 entities – 11 retail brokers and 14 wholesale market makers – to explain a new phenomenon that now lives at the center of the US capital markets ecosystem. Alphacution’s most ambitious research project to date, this report covers the governing liquidity economics framework that defines PFOF rates, the mechanics of Robinhood’s aggressive retail brokerage model, the transformation of the retail brokerage industry, the sophisticated strategy architectures of wholesale market makers, and the “retail flow factors” that impact all market actors in the ecosystem – among many other themes and avenues for future research. An executive summary is available for review and download by open subscribers (w/ free registration). The complete case study is available to premium subscribers or via individual report purchase.
Protocol Features Alphacution Research on Robinhood, 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 - publishes article based largely on Alphacution's research.
Robinhood IPO: An Elaborate Card Counting Assistance Platform (Updated)
On a lazy Thursday afternoon leading up to the US 4th of July holiday weekend, Robinhood unveils its IPO (S-1) document to the world. Here are some early highlights and analysis that can only be found at Alphacution...
Alphacution Press: Money Magazine on Upcoming Robinhood IPO
Mallika Mitra is a reporter at Money, covering investing trends, retirement, and debt. Her recent article, "Robinhood IPO: What to Know Before Investing," was published on June 2, 2021 based, in part, on Alphacution's ongoing analysis of Robinhood, its business model, and its impacts on the broader capital markets ecosystem.
A Regulatory Outlook for Off-Exchange Market Makers in the Aftermath of the GameStop Hearings
Alphacution contributor, Stanislav Dolgopolov, provides a detailed review of potential regulatory issues - including payment for order flow (PFOF), the multiplicity of roles of off-exchange market makers, and their informational advantages, among others - that may receive new scrutiny in the aftermath of the GameStop congressional hearings.
