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by minimax 2549 days ago
You can't really "front run" a retail order. Front running means you (assuming you are an agency broker) get a big market moving order from a customer, do a trade in your own account first (in the same direction as the customer order), then execute the customer order which moves the market in your favor.

Retail orders are small and generally aren't capable of moving prices. Your order for 100 shares of whatever isn't going to move the price so you can't really make money ahead of it.