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Essentially the same thing happens when you trade stocks on Robinhood.

• spurdoman77 6y ago
  No, definitely not.
  • DennisP 6y ago
    I was about to reply that the "front-running" has been widely reported, decided I'd better google a source, and came across a fantastic article about how payment-for-order-flow actually works. You're right, it's not front-running, and it gives retail traders a better price than they would have gotten on the market itself. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/robinhood-gamestop-saga-pressures-payment-for-order-flow https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/robinh...