Investor/Consumer: Looking Back to the Game Stop Short Squeeze

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 02-2023
Event Truth, Transparency, Controversy
Number of pages 3
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract This post argues that the protocols of the trading platforms used by retail investors are designed to fix users in a consumer position, with no influence in the curse of the markets. Challenging corporate discourses describing these platforms as vectors of transparency in the traditionally opaque world of finance, an analysis of Robinhood’s Payment for Order Flow (and eToro’s closed trading system demonstrates that the very elements making these services understandable for millions of users foreclose their agency as traders.
Document type Paper
Note Published in 2023 on the Dé montages platform.
Language English
Published at https://demontages.phl-lab.uliege.be/investor-consumer-looking-back-to-the-game-stop-short-squeeze/
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FERRARI-BRAUN_InvestorConsumer_FINAL_MEF_2 (Final published version)
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