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Back office systems are exactly where Citadel, the market maker, could put a tiny little window to peep at data they shouldn't, so they can frontrun every trade retail investors make!!

The secret ingredient is crime ;)

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Doesn't every single large broker frontrun this way? That's what I was told by former wall street programmers.

Sounds like they found a way to make the plot of Office Space work in real life.

Making that scheme work wouldn't be the hard part. The hard part is staying out of prison.

I am not convinced this is true, but I see that the possibility is there, and it wouldn't even be the largest stock market scam that came to light.

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