If PROP Desks decides to trade against their clients, are they not risking themselves?

[Sanket]

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Whats your thoughts on this ?

I had bookmarked this post. Hopefully this should answer your query.

Is the prop trading done by zerodha, at the expense of clients? (Very imp) opinions by all apperciated

Brokerage firms having a prop desk is a norm across the world. In developed markets like the US, order flows are sold to high frequency trading firms who in turn fill them. In India it is not possible. What you get to see as a broker, especially with our kind of size, it is almost like you seeing the market itself. Being able to see the entire market depth, isn’t really any great advantage when trading (especially for the non HFT kinds). Today you can subscribe to exchange tick by tick data fe…