Other market makers are often moving away from something they've seen but you haven't yet. When whatever that is hits you, the fills you got from the other market maker will look really bad.
Not aware of a market maker that also doesn't take liquidity as well. In fact, it probably would impossible to market make without also taking (you wouldn't be able to provide liquidity if your quotes were in cross with the market).
That said market makers do a lot more making than taking.
Sylvia Plath was publishing complex poetry at 8 and was already showing the intense and dark themes she's become an icon for at 14.
If you haven't dealt with what Plath or this woman has, or are some credentialed authority on early childhood development of exceptional children (or poetry), I can't understand why your speculation on this is worth listening to.
Another perspective - the ETF tracking shipping indices (BDRY) is outperforming every other US ETF for 2021 YTD at 177%, including leveraged index ETFs.
This is a myopic take on both Levine's writing and the external impact that stupidity can have on other market participants, positioned in entirely different assets.
snakedoctor, you have borderline traits and should try to work with a therapist to gain insight into the dissonance between how you see yourself and how others see you. It is not realistic for you to achieve your goals without working on your mental health first.
Sure, it's regulated, but which regulation states they have a fiduciary duty to you?
Given they are currently arguing in court they have no such duty, but only to act in their customers best interest, perhaps this isn't sufficiently clear to them.
A MM expects to make pennies for selling an option.
If there is a sufficient squeeze, and GME doesn't issue new shares, each of those options (especially those purchased earlier) will result in tens or hundreds of dollars of profit to the holder.
What's your math for asserting that Citadel is making "the most money" "by a huge margin"?
