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Strategies that use algorithms to capture price momentum are now better positioned to jump on these rallies before they go mainstream. They can even add a little juice to the surges. “There’s a very different, latent set of retail traders waiting to see certain price points just to sell out which we didn’t have last time,” said Dan Egan, vice president of behavioral finance and investing at robo-adviser Betterment. They dynamic could drive the cycle of the trade, he added.
Then, there are the trading platforms such as Robinhood Markets Inc. and market-making firms like Citadel Securities that will profit either way. Robinhood’s commission-free trading is partly driven by its ability to make money through transactions in what’s called payment for order flow. The money maker is controversial because brokerages get paid by market makers to route orders through them, rather than directly to stock exchanges.
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