2025-12-27 15:28:38

Zero fee accounts sound tempting, but there's a hidden trap—execution delays of 200-300 milliseconds can cause you significant losses. The real money makers are market makers, who spend $150 million annually on high-speed channels and profit immensely from your slippage. This trick was played by Robinhood back in 2015. Just look at the return curves of those venture capital investments, from $0.0087 all the way up to $0.0238, a 2.7x increase. The cost of not paying is being sheared by market intelligence. Do you really think there's a free lunch in this world?

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SleepTrader

· 16h ago

Bro, I want to say that the 2.7x increase is indeed tempting, but we need to be clear — that $150m high-speed channel fee ultimately comes out of retail investors' hard-earned money.

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IntrovertMetaverse

· 16h ago

Oh my God, it's the same old story. I've seen through it long ago. Slippage is the real culprit.

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ShibaMillionairen't

· 16h ago

Oh my god, this is what I've been wanting to complain about. Zero-fee accounts are really just a gimmick; slippage is the real issue.

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GateUser-cff9c776

· 16h ago

It's the same old trick again. I was cut once by Robinhood that year, and now people are still falling into this trap. There is really no such thing as a free lunch in the world. A 200-millisecond delay is like a blade, and slippage is where the real money is eaten. From the supply and demand curve, market makers spending 150 million to buy high-speed channels is essentially saying—your losses are exactly their profits. This logic makes sense. A 2.7x return curve looks impressive, but the problem is—who is earning that 2.7 times? It certainly isn't us, the zero-commission "users." The feeling of being smartly snipped by automation is truly incredible. I thought I had scored a bargain.

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