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by missedthecue 1815 days ago
I understand that Robinhood sells order flow and that you may get a worse fill because of it, but is the average Robinhood user getting 3 cents of slippage on their order of 1 share of Ford worse than a $10 round trip in order fees from a more premium broker on the same trade?

I think the order flow model is better for most retail traders. Obviously, if you're buying $20k in stock at a time, paying the fees will be better, but that's not your average Robinhood user.

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Everyone sells order flow. It’s: do you want sale of your order flow to be the only fee you pay or do you want to pay commissions on top of that, too?
That’s not true. Fidelity does not receive pfof.
First I’ve heard that. I looked it up and this is for options not equity. https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...