Payment for order flow is the practice of market makers paying brokers a commission for sending trades to them.

Some also say payment for order flow is more complicated than commissions, which can lead people to think that the market is rigged against them.

During the House Financial Services Committee's Thursday hearing on the recent GameStop stock frenzy, there was talk of a practice known as "payment for order flow" (PFOF). To anyone not fluent in ...

Payment For Order Flow: The core idea of the zero-commission model is payment for order flow, or PFOF. Here’s a breakdown. First, an investor submits an order to buy or sell a stock through ...

While they have not banned payment for order flow, regulators have called into question whether it presents conflicts of interest in how retail brokers route their customers’ trades.

Markets are a means, not an end. Access to investing, therefore, is a means to achieving an outcome. The debate around payment for order flow seems to have lost that critical point, centering on ...

“Payment for order flow enables commission-free trading,” said Robinhood chief executive Vlad Tenev during Congressional testimony in February 2021 following the Gamestop debacle.

Payment order flow has had a spiral effect where it just made it really, really easy to trade and actively trade. I think that it does benefit the market makers and the high frequency trading firms.

Market maker paid out the most in payment for order flow in 2020 and 2021, including $1.7 billion spent on options, followed by Susquehanna and Virtu Financial.