Vanguard Colludes With Citadel To Drain Investor Liquidity
How often can Citadel take Vanguard orders into the dark pool?
Citadel can route Vanguard client orders into dark pools, but the exact frequency is not publicly disclosed. Vanguard uses multiple market makers and prioritizes best execution, which may include dark pool venues like Citadel Connect.
š³ļø What Are Dark Pools?
Dark pools are private trading venues where large orders can be executed anonymously, minimizing market impact.
Theyāre often used by institutional investors to avoid slippage and front-running.
Citadel Connect is Citadelās proprietary dark pool, one of the most active in the U.S.
š Vanguardās Routing Practices
Vanguard Brokerage Services routes trades to external market makers, including Citadel Securities.
According to SEC Rule 606 disclosures, Vanguard evaluates execution quality across venues, which may include dark pools.
Vanguard does not publish how often Citadel routes its orders into dark pools like Citadel Connect.
š What We Know from Disclosures
Citadel Securities has been fined for mismarking short sales and has faced scrutiny over its dark pool practices.
Vanguardās Rule 606 reports show Citadel receives a significant portion of its order flow, but do not specify how much ends up in dark pools.
Retail trades routed through Citadel may be internally matched or sent to dark pools depending on liquidity and pricing.
š Transparency Challenges
No public breakdown exists showing how many Vanguard orders go into Citadelās dark pool versus lit exchanges.
Retail investors have raised concerns on Reddit and forums like r/Superstonk and r/wallstreetbets about the opacity of dark pool routing.
š§ Bottom Line
While Citadel can route Vanguard orders into its dark pool, the frequency and conditions are not disclosed. Vanguardās priority is best execution, which may involve dark pools if they offer better pricing or liquidity.
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Transparency and Justice bring democracy to stocks, sing forever bold, we hold, G.M.E. and A.M.C. (we will see) Not gonna sell until on the Moon, gonna give you a silver spoon, gonna get my tendies so hold if you please.
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Roaring Kitty you are the best kind and funny memes to jest Not a dead cat, so have a rest. Trader Trey where are you at? You hit short sellers with a bat. Rich criminals on the mat. (this is not financial advice)
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i just heard today that Elizabeth Warren is speaking out about Trump removing some Dod-Frank rules 5 yars agoā¦ wow took the whole market being shorted for 4 years and a presidential election cycle, but there is some hope with new regulations (ive heard of 3 new ways for the SEC to reduce the white collar crime being allowed now)
Citadel is suing the SEC about the new CAT system designed 10 years ago that they are dragging their feet on, but that combined with the rule that market makers should not be also hedge funds, and maybe some other rules getting enforced better maybe might save Capitalism.
Project Popcorn is in its 2nd or 3rd incarnation as an Ape rebellion against stock market corruption. Project Popcorn is an ongoing share count run by a team of Twitter-X Apes. Apes Jordan Optimal and Al from Boston are also suing the crony companies insider trading against AMC to drain wealth from retail investors for MIC and broker-bank hedge funds. The trend when hedgies start to fail, is for them to relabel their company as a “family firm” which like dark-pools, makes the lit exchange fuel for the black-market. Family firms and dark pools are ways for the rich to avoid regulation and break laws legally because they do not have to report what they are doing.
āListen I am really not supposed to be sharing this, but here goes. Everyone here (citsec). Everyone here is worried about the retail collusion. Our volatility engines are totally broken, and the sequencer is over-flowing. People are scared for their jobs, even Ken is in the office lately. We didnt think we would have to cover so many shorts; and the dark pools are becoming thinner by the minute due to pricing mismatches. This is a crisis like ive never seen in my 3 years in the industry. It’s true, all of it. – The Emily Account 6/10/21ā Later Emily tweeted it was a joke post; but she showed a photo with her handwritten signature and official Citadel covid mask, so she probably at least worked for Citadel Securities.
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“Dear twitter, i am trapped at my crappy desk and i hate my boss. I always have to clean out the dark pool, and wash the naked shorts. I have no more friends because i work for the Devil. Our vortex machine and ladders are broken. Please help, i want a new job.”
“Dear Joe Parson, I was told you are an ape i can trust. I am Ken Griffin’s personal secretary and he makes me do terrible things. I am not allowed to tell you everything now, but meet me at the parking lot behind Citadel at midnight. – Emily Beavis”
I’m going to wear my bulletproof vest because I don’t trust Emily
“Dear Kenneth Barrett, this is Ken Griffin at Citadel. I had no one else to turn to, because my life has become a charade. My dog died last week, and i am not sure but i think all my staff hate me. I dont know why people hate me so much, i pay them to like me. Can you help me? I was told that you are the man to talk to if i have a problem. Sincerely, Ken G.”
“Dear Chris Puopolo, i need your help to burn down my office building. THere are a few guards, but should not be a problem. I am using twitter because i am not allowed to leave the building, but i have nothing to go home to since i have been trapped by the Devil for 500 years. truly, Cemore Butts, Esq.”
“Dear Bee Jay, I want to attend Stonk-stock to hang out with Fish at the apefest, but i am chained to my desk at Citadel. Can you come free me? There are 3 levels of puzzles and a boss to fight. This is not a trap, come asap. – Frito”
Every friday hedge fund stock options expire. The “put” options are bets on losses against stocks, that the hedge funds make for months and they have to cover them with more money frequently. As the put options expire, hedge funds try to cover by running shorting tactics to pay the lowest amount to continue to drain profits from the targeted company. The first hedge funds to cover options during shorting, can then break and inflate the price to prevent other hedge funds from continuing to profit. This creates spikes, bubbles, or short squeezes*; that return down rapidly with sell offs, short sells and short positions again**. There is one timid regulation by the SEC*** that helps restrict short corruption a bit, but fines are usually paid allowing for continued greater illegal profits. Deregulation aids the corrupt crony rigging, as they would rather not even have laws against their theft.
Short Positioning – using tactics to profit from destroying stocks using futures, options, trades, and swaps
Types of Stock Short Position Tactics:
Short Selling – selling a stock soon after borrowing or buying (often mistakenly used to mean positioning)
Naked Shorting – creates fake shares that do not exist, to sell to bring price down.
Short Ladder Attack – rapid repeated consecutive short sells or fake trade walls (carrot & stick) at lowering prices. Sometimes called “ping-pong” as the prices are stepped back and forth on the ladder rungs or trade lists.
Phantom Trade Walls – fake trade orders that become FTDs or cancelled orders but are used as massive sell or buy blocks that vanish at market close or never get delivered, but were kept as a carrot to direct the price movement.
Short Put Options – bets against a stock, that price will decline at set future targets.
Short Futures or Margin Position – Margin deposit 50% of total sale, bets if price goes to zero they get double the margin; but max potential loss is unlimited if the price goes up.
Corporate Media Propaganda – public smears and lies against stocks and stock holders; using F.U.D. (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) to scare long term investors into not buying or selling, and attract more short positions.
Dark Pool (off the lit exchange) Trades – retail trades are supposed to go to the lit exchange by law, but market makers seem to divert massive amounts of buy orders from reaching the open market, using various excuses such as their ability to write infinite IOUs instead of “delivering actual digital shares”, and are not significantly punished as long as they make money for the rich. These IOU FTDs are then also bundled into junk bonds and used as fake share collateral to naked short.
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*A ‘short squeeze‘ is a temporary rapid increase in the price of a stock due to excess short positioning. A short squeeze occurs when there is a lack of supply and an excess of demand for the stock due to hedge funds having to buy stocks to cover their short positions.
**A ‘long squeeze‘ is long term short position hedging (if unchecked with buyers). During long squeezes long term investors slowly sell off to hedge losses if they feel the company may continue to go under with no return (bankrupt or dissolve). [see GE stock price chart over 10 years]
***Short-Sale Rule (SSR) – a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) trading regulation that imposes restrictions on short selling only when a stock has triggered a circuit breaker by experiencing a price decline of at least 10 percent in one day. At that point, short selling would be permitted if the price of the security is above the current national best bid.
How Exchanges Manipulate Stock Price
EDGX is one of the exchanges walking the AMC price down daily, according to some stock watchers [AMC Exchange Video].
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The price charts for GME, Nokia, Black-Berry, Bed-Bath-And-Beyond, and AMC mirror each-other due to manipulated corporate bot shorting. The hedge fund companies that attack GME seem to be the same that attack AMC (Robinhood, Citadel, Melvin). When prices are down, holding feels like prison. I recommend herbs to deal with the passage of time until prices go up. it is kind of like we are on a long train ride together, and some of us feel like talking until we get off at our stop.
This was not a one time trend only. Yes there was a major event like a 2 day battle, but other battles happen every week between investors and hedge sharks. Our movement now has more social union power, which is changing the game, despite elite reactions to stop us from doing business. The ‘Infiltrate Wall Street’ WAR has really only started. The establishment does not want new money players from the lower and middle class moving up and competing for profits with them, so they will continue to manipulate the market by using their ownership power to control rigging in their favor. The rich will claim that the lower classes are manipulating by conspiring socially, but that is how business works.
Keith Gill aka Roaring Kitty aka D.F.V. is just one of our heroes fighting for the rights of average investors to buy stock shares and grow companies and increase their life savings (because banks sure as hell are not helping). Granted Keith Gill worked for an investment company and had $750,000 to invest, which most people do not; but he shared his information so that other investors could learn and have some fun in the process socially. His artistic ‘value’ style and liberal attitude in his videos are revolutionary for society. The price range for his favorite company Gamestop (GME) was $5-$300 which he bought up to an average price of $62 with 150,000 shares totaling $47,000,000.
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