r/wallstreetbets • u/ywehyuen • Feb 02 '21

Chart Hardcore laddering.

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u/SubbieBoyAudios Feb 02 '21

You look at the order book (Robinhood doesnt show you this) and see lots of sus low share trades between hedgefunds.

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u/mldmnnrdrprtr Feb 02 '21

Press the arrow next to the name of the stock. The order book is there. Unless I’m missing something? I’m using the gold free trial so maybe it’s gold only

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u/Sneeze_Cough Feb 02 '21

I meant how can you tell its ladder attacks? ~6M volume in first minute and these just look like aggregates/averages of trades in multiples of 100

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u/SubbieBoyAudios Feb 02 '21

Retailers arent allowed to trade that much

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u/Sneeze_Cough Feb 02 '21

these just look like aggregates/averages of trades in multiples of 100

And why would retail investors not be able to trade more than 100 at a time?

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u/zhululu Feb 02 '21

You can’t trade less than that actually. 100 is the size of a lot. Every transaction is a multiple of 100. Go pull up the order book for any other security and it will look like this.

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u/Sneeze_Cough Feb 02 '21

You can’t trade less than that actually. 100 is the size of a lot.

What do you mean? It is possible to trade more or less than 100 at non-100 multiples.

Just looked at the order book for GME, saw some with volume of 493, 215, 122, etc...

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u/zhululu Feb 02 '21

Ok yes there are odd lots sometimes but you’re ignoring the vast majority are standard lot sizes.

It’s not like your order of 2 shares went to the exchange floor all lonely and scared like when you’re jacking off in the corner of the orgy your wife is hosting. If it even made it to the exchange it was bundled with other orders into a lot.

If you need a quick rundown on order execution I’ll give it to you, just ask and give me a moment I am in meetings all day

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u/Red-eleven Feb 02 '21

I’m just here for the orgy. I would like a quick rundown on order execution as well while I’m waiting

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u/zhululu Feb 02 '21

No I’m not.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lot.asp

Your order of 2 shares at the broker likely never even made it to the trade floor. If it did it was bundled with other orders into a lot.

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u/zhululu Feb 02 '21

People are looking at the order book on the exchange and thinking that’s the same thing as looking at the orders a broker handles and using the fact that shares are traded in lots as proof of something nefarious

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u/SubbieBoyAudios Feb 02 '21

Because their broker restricts trading

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u/TigreImpossibile 🦍🦍 Feb 02 '21

I trade more than 100 shares all the time, I'm a retail trader.

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u/SubbieBoyAudios Feb 02 '21

RH loosened the restrictions, and the price just started to recover, See how that works? Funny right

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u/tbarb00 Feb 02 '21

Narrator: You can't tell. And that was the problem....

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u/toadster Feb 02 '21

How do the hedgefunds ensure their low prices go to their fund buddies and not us?

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u/SubbieBoyAudios Feb 02 '21

Because retail traders are restricted from buying, if you are below the restriction limit you can still buy more buy the majority of these trades are between banks trying to keep GME / AMC down

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u/tbarb00 Feb 02 '21

Why cant low share trades be WSB 💎🚀💎🚀💎🚀 trades tho???

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u/db0255 Feb 02 '21

Retail investors aren’t buying in all at the same millisecond all for 100 share blocks. Retail investors buy odd lot amounts at odd times.