OPK Downgraded by Schwab Market Edge

This shows how hard it is to predict OPK's movement from a technical standpoint. These people downgraded OPK on 2/27, upgraded it on 3/13, downgraded it again today and the stock shoots up 6%. I think they will stop following it by next week

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They went from a sell to a buy to a hold all within 30 days! They are as confused as we are...Although the chart of cosomatic says it's a strong buy!

I posit that they make money front running, er, I mean timing the market. In my mind it might legally go something like:

1. They pay for a proprietary market gauge.
2. The firm provides value added services to TD/Schwab when the indicator is on the cusp of changing
3. TD/Schwab observe order flow
4. TD/Schwab package their order flow and sell to clients along with their 2nd derivative indicator (acceleration of changing indicator)
5. Retail is always 2 steps behind the move in the market, missing their price point by a few Pennies to a Nickel, which doesn't matter to much on 1,000 shares
6. Large clients walk away happy having timed their 1M trade perfectly to glean a $.05 price improvement, netting a $50K price improvement.

1. Schwab is a money machine, with over $3 trillion in AUM, 30% net margins generating $3.5 billion on the way to $5 billion in annual net income. The bulk of which is derived from Investor Services and Advisory Fees, whereas they report little to no profit from Institutional Services. Now, clearly there is order flow shenanigans going on everywhere, but that's not where Schwab's bread is buttered.

2. Regarding the thread, I would refer us to Billy's famous comedy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing