Proprietary trading companies7 May 2026 21:06
Proprietary trading companies active in the AI-driven markets often justify their dominance by claiming to provide liquidity, yet in practice many appear to do the opposite. By using speed, scale, and opaque strategies unavailable to ordinary participants, they can suppress genuine price discovery, starve small and growing companies of fair market support, and systematically extract value from retail investors. What is presented as market efficiency increasingly feels like market capture, where innovation and long‑term growth are sacrificed to short‑term profit, and the risks are socialised while the rewards accrue to a small, powerful few