FINRA Fines Robinhood Financial, LLC $1.25 Million for Best Execution Violations
FINRA found that for more than a year, Robinhood—which offers its customers the ability to trade in equity securities without being charged commissions—routed its customers’ non-directed equity orders to four broker-dealers, all of which paid Robinhood for that order flow. This arrangement is known in the brokerage industry as payment for order flow.
Comment: Robinhood fined and just look what they do They let you trade for FREE how? Nothing is free in this world right, well they sell your order to another firm (the get paid for it) You get your trade for free everyone happy. BUT who wants your orders? You guess it NAKED SHORT SELLING firms. They trade against you order for example if your buying 5K of shares of SRNE on firday THE order is naked shorted by Them Never making it to the market at all. If you sell it and they are short. You can bet your kidney on it they will let that 5K go to the market and help drive it lower NEVER being the buyer. Thats the game. AND ROBINHOOD is helping the crooks for profit and screwing their own CLIENT.
