The plumbing of stock brokerages
In this week’s video insight Andreas discusses the recent news headlines emerging out of the US about retail investors ramping up stock prices in heavily short illiquid companies to create artificial short squeezes driving the share prices even higher and enabling the investors to sell and realise gains. Further news stated that retail brokerages such as Robinhood started to restrict buying of stocks involved in short squeezes. Andreas identifies how these brokerages work.
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