Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and sell ...

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, ...

Forex order flow refers to the real-time record of buy and sell orders in the foreign exchange market. It represents the collective actions of currency market participants and provides invaluable ...

Now that almost every brokerage has followed in the footsteps of Robinhood and adopted commission-free trading, how do these companies make money? One main source of revenue is from a small sum of ...

Payment for order flow (where market makers pay brokers to route orders for execution) and the duty of best execution (which requires a broker to seek the most favorable terms reasonably available for ...

Following the GameStop trading frenzy, the SEC is expected to take a fresh look at payment for order flow, a decades-old practice that is at the heart of how commission-free trading works. WSJ ...

PFOF allows brokers to offer commission-free trades by routing orders to market makers. Investors often receive better prices than the NBBO via market maker payments. Critics argue PFOF may prevent ...