Comment by HaZeust

Sort of. I've addressed this with another commenter already [1]

>"What? THAT CASH comes from owning the inside spread on roughly half of every US equity share that trades. They quote a micro-price adjustment, and it pushes out anyone slower - which exactly the “service” that lets retail investors, like us, hit a bid or ask.

>>Honestly, whether YOU want to call that trend-following or market-making - I can't be arsed, but it’s still data-retrieval that runs THE institutional scale"

I find this comment chain becoming cyclical, so I'll likely end it here.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495361