Tim Hafner, CEO and co-founder of OpenServ, believes social analytics are on track to become as central to trading as traditional price and volume data, underscoring a structural shift in how markets ...

Options order flow refers to the real-time data of options trades, which can provide valuable insights into the market sentiment and potential price movements. In this article, we will dive into the ...

Quant Data, a fintech company that offers low-cost access to option order flow, is expanding its product portfolio with a new mobile app. What Happened: Founded in 2020 to unlock actionable market ...

Payment for order flow is the money brokerage firms make by sending trade orders to high-frequency traders or market makers. When an individual investor places a trade, the brokerage firm sends the ...

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 ...

Trading app Public stopped using payment for order flow and now says it's better for it. Some retail traders have petitioned for a ban on the practice, and regulators are considering it. In several ...

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 ...