About a month after Robinhood and Citadel challenged the amended antitrust complaint against them, the plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) related to the January 2021 short squeeze have submitted their response at the Court. Let’s recall that, according to the plaintiffs, this case involves a collusive agreement to restrict individual investors from exercising control over their trades and trading accounts. Robinhood and Citadel are accused of having hatched an anticompetitive scheme to restrict Retail Investors’ access to specific securities in the stock market, to suppress the prices of these securities, ... (full story)