It really is that simple.
If you are a market maker, you should not be allowed to run directional bets.
You cannot profit from the privileged position of providing liquidity, earning billions from order flow and spread, and then turn around and trade against the very clients who have no alternative venue.
When clients are effectively captive, the playing field must be level.
Liquidity provision and proprietary directional trading should not sit under the same roof.
The most confusing term in accounting:
Stock-Based Compensation
How does it work? Why is it controversial?
Here’s a complete overview (in plain English):
We now know Trump's TOP economic priority:
For weeks, President Trump said there would be NO tariff delay, even as stocks erased $12+ TRILLION.
Then, the bond market BROKE and a 90-day tariff pause was implemented 12 hours later.
Keep watching bonds.
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This is absolutely insane:
On February 20th, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon sold $234 million worth of $JPM stock.
On February 22nd, Warren Buffett announced a record $334 BILLION cash balance.
12 days later, the Nasdaq 100 crashed -11%.
How did they know?
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