---
title: "Retail Price Improvement Scam – Premarket Stock Talk"
url: https://premarketinfo.com/2012/07/24/retail-price-improvement-scam-premarket-stock-talk/
description: "We discuss how retail price improvement is a scam that causes your limit order to lose execution priority. We also talk about earnings fades, and the lack of liquidity."
published: 2012-07-24
updated: 2012-07-24
author: "Dennis Dick"
---

# Retail Price Improvement Scam – Premarket Stock Talk

By Dennis Dick · Published 2012-07-24

[High Frequency Trading](https://premarketinfo.com/category/hft/), [Trading Education](https://premarketinfo.com/category/trading-education/)

We discuss how retail price improvement is a scam that causes your limit order to lose execution priority. We also talk about earnings fades, and the lack of liquidity during earnings releases. A look at today’s earnings reports as well:

[Watch the recorded webcast on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpvTzdRliU)

Here is a link to the Nanex analysis that I referenced in the video: [Sub-penny Price Anomaly](http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3517.html)

Themis Trading also put out a nice piece on this: [They threw me in the shark tank](http://blog.themistrading.com/they-threw-me-in-the-shark-tank-paulie-internalization-and-sub-penny-pricing/)

[July 2012 entries](https://premarketinfo.com/2012/07/) · [Back to the desk](https://premarketinfo.com/)