In short: "Is this why Citadel was buying the order flow from Robin Hood?" — "Yes, of course." The market makers are the informed "facilitators" who now capture the active alpha: "they effectively have become the croupier at the casino."
Citadel Securities is a giant market maker — the firm on the other side of many retail orders. Green says buying Robinhood's order flow is "exactly" about seeing the crowd's trades first. In his framework it is a "facilitator": an informed trader who profits by serving and front-running the crowd rather than correcting its mistakes.
He argues the old active-manager profits have migrated to these firms, which "have become the croupier at the casino." Privately held; nothing to buy.
30:56Now, in order to do that, you need to have transparency in terms of what they're doing. Effectively, be able to see the crowd better than any individual in the crowd can see themselves. That makes the most valuable piece of information their order flow. — Is this why Citadel was buying the order flow from Robin Hood? — Was is you mean? — Yeah.
In short: Named only as the buyer that cleared the overhang: "situational awareness being pushed into that for sale with Citadel helped solve some of those issues." No view on the firm.
7:07And so you saw that with Korean retail investors who got absolutely destroyed when SK Hynix and Samsung imploded, but you also saw that with funds such as situational awareness. And there were some other funds that I heard that were in trouble as well. But luckily situational awareness being pushed into that for sale with Citadel helped solve some of those issues because the market obviously ripped the next day, especially in a lot of those positions that were getting unwound.
In short: Named only as the buyer that cleared the overhang, with no view on the firm: "Citadel got the cleanup print on that and now they're pretty much out of that trade at this point." Farley fills in the mechanics — the block trades were announced July 27th or 28th, and Citadel had sold the bulk of the positions by late August.
Citadel is one of the largest multi-strategy hedge funds, and here it plays a single role: the buyer of last resort.
When Situational Awareness was liquidated, Citadel bought the book in block trades — "Citadel got the cleanup print on that" — and had sold most of it back into the market by late August. That round trip is what converted a forced sale into a clean transfer of ownership.
No view is expressed on Citadel itself; it is there to show that the liquidation was absorbed rather than dumped.
13:32Faltered a little bit. Well, I think anytime you have a leverage player that goes t.u., that usually marks a bottom, right? And so Citadel got the cleanup print on that and now they're pretty much out of that trade at this point. But — just for audience — so Situational Awareness, a hedge fund, was very long semiconductors and they liquidated most or all of their publicly traded securities, sold them in block trades to Citadel. That was announced July 27th or 28th and then in
In short: Twice on the wrong side of him. Citadel Securities was "arguing for a rate hike" in July when he publicly said no hike in July and probably not September; then Ken Griffin acquired Situational Awareness' entire public equity book in late July — and Citadel has since published a note saying retail should get back into the market ("it's just funny").
8:27Even Palantir, although we don't own it, rallied about 40% on earnings. And for those of you who don't know what happened, in late July of 2026, Ken Griffin acquired the public equity portfolio of Situational Awareness, which was the AI focused hedge fund run by the former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner after he suffered heavy losses.
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