[anonymouse008]

> PFOF (payment for order flow) exists

So my inner self says that these are red herrings, or false flags set by 'real players' to lead the stampede into your living room.

It feels like there's never been a better 'cover' than r/wallstreetbets for firms with real capital to put material volume behind names that would in other scenarios be extremely suspect, or near manipulation. Now you can say, 'see, retail said they like AMD, AMC, etc... (THE STOCK)" because, yes, some random user with karma can now be the input to your 'algo' to move $name_of_stock, or generally, SPY calls / 'poots' in size wildly impossible otherwise.

Humbly, I think it's brilliant

[Edit] to put this comment in context of my response to another poster, I believe the macro can be independent of the micro (aka many little names can get blown up while your main indices maintain some sense of normalcy).

[valkmit]

The more retail traders, the more money that institutional traders can make! Institutional traders love the uninformed flow. It's no fun trading purely against other algorithms (and also not nearly as profitable)