(Light background is @TMFOtter's article. Dark background are my tweets from Monday evening)
I am not a journalist, and I'm still not a lawyer, but a long time ago my professors had a very scary word to describe this behavior. It started with a P, and was best avoided by citing sources and giving attribution.
I've been an occasional reader of @Themotleyfool since the 90s, and while nobody expects you folks to have the journalistic standards of even @WSJ, I really did expect better of you.
Even just a DM of "hey, can we use this?" would have been courteous.
Please, add some form of attribution (and maybe a link for your readers to see the thread in its original form), or take the article down.
Thanks.
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Step 0: Citadel pays Robinhood for order flow. Citadel gets to see RH's orders a few milliseconds before they're filled. Citadel may choose to front-run some of those trades.
Step 1: RH's customers and WallStreetBets start manipulating $GME. This is happening in the open.
Officially, they're manipulating $GME (and $BB and $KOSS) because these low-value stocks are being very heavily shorted, and if something moves the value of the stock up (like, tens of thousands of retail investors acting in near unison), those short-sellers may be forced to sell
...to cover their borrowed shares. If most shares are held by retail investors who won't sell, the price will skyrocket (supply/demand) until someone does. The bear hedge funds and such will still have to buy to cover, which may cause a bit of a liquidity crisis for the funds.
Don't want: Delays seeing tweets from accounts that tweet timely information (@I80chains, @CAquake), and then seeing them re-appear in "Did you miss this?" 48 hours later, when they're stale.
I don't love the promoted tweets/ads, but I recognize you've got a business to run.
I've ported one of my bots from the stream API to the AA API. I haven't decided whether to do the others or to just abandon them. Considering the prohibitive pricing above the "sandbox" tier, I'm not inclined.