List of US-based brokers taking Swiss clients (FINRA-regulated, SIPC-protected)

Investing / Brokers
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PFOF (payment for order flow) is totally separate from privacy.

It’s a way for retail trader to get a price improvement on trading, that improvement is shared between the broker and the trader.

Most retail broker will send the flow to specific venue/market makers, because it’s actually good for their users. (and they get some revenue as well)

(There’s some debate whether the split is the correct one, ie how much of the price improvement should go to the broker vs trader, but it’s generally an improvement)

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PFOF (payment for order flow): I understood little or nothing of what you wrote. Can you start with the basics?

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I think Payment for order flow - Wikipedia should have the right pointers, for further basics I think it’s actually the type of things where an LLM would do a decent job.

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