What is Payment For Order Flow? What is PFOF? Why does Public not use payment for order flow? Great question!

Robinhood, the uber-popular brokerage, helped usher in a new era of commission-free trading. It pushed established financial institutions, such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity, to follow suit. Sadly, ...

Markets are a means, not an end. Access to investing, therefore, is a means to achieving an outcome. The debate around payment for order flow seems to have lost that critical point, centering on ...

The old way a financial brokerage made money was to charge a fee whenever someone bought or sold stock. A company like TD Ameritrade or Charles Schwab would charge $4.95 or $6.95 (or whatever) in ...

Robinhood’s zero-commission trading model came under scrutiny earlier this year during the WallStreetBets-fueled trading frenzy in GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) and other so-called “meme” stocks. The zero ...

Thank you, Rich (Repetto), for that kind introduction. It is good to be with you again. As is customary, I’d like to note my views are my own, and I’m not speaking on behalf of my fellow Commissioners ...

Former TD Ameritrade CEO Joe Moglia said banning payment for order flow would be a "disservice" to retail traders. Moglia said retail traders get everything for free on a trade except a "little spread ...

As with Gamestop, I hesitated to write a payment for order flow post given that so much has been written about this already. But since it is a topic that comes up often, I thought I would share my ...

Asset bubbles are easy enough to define, but not so simple to identify. WSJ’s Gunjan Banerji explains what bubbles are exactly, how they form and what happens when they burst. Illustration: Jacob ...

If you're a curious observer of Robinhood Markets' (NASDAQ: HOOD) recent initial public offering, you've likely heard the term "payment for order flow." Market pundits continue to debate whether it ...

Trading app Public stopped using payment for order flow and now says it's better for it. Some retail traders have petitioned for a ban on the practice, and regulators are considering it. In several ...