Oh well. |
And your expertise includes linking a violent mob who stormed the capital to redditors who want to profit from a stupid game that hedge funds play? You should be ashamed of yourself. If you have arguments to make, do your research(read the reddit boards) and come up with something productive. I actually read quite a few of them today to try to understand what is going on. It's pretty sad that you are actually someone with something worthy to contribute to this topic. You are a disgrace! |
This is correct and is the big problem. Why stop people from buying with cash, crazy and not fair! |
E*Trade is restricting trades in Gamestop. Time to figure out how to widen the conspiracy theory to include them:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/e-trade-restricts-purchases-of-gamestop-amc-shares |
The brokerages are not risk free in executing these trades. |
They are when it's bought with cash. They are only at risk from margins and nobody has criticized margin calls. Guess which party in this situation was overextended? Hint, it wasnt the redditors. |
The brokerages caused losses in cash accounts in order to protect against margin losses from the hedge funds. |
What is the risk of executing a cash trade? |
It's true. I just tried to buy 4 shares of AMC with my own money on e-trade(no margin) and it's a no go: "Opening orders for this security cannot be accepted online at this time. For assistance with placing this order, please contact Customer Service at 1-800-ETRADE-1 (1-800-387-2331)". This is absolutely ridiculous! |
Remember, it wasnt just Gamestop trading that was halted. Nokia and AMC Theatres were also. Both of those two are fully "legit". Nokia was hit so hard by the forced selling that it dropped to lower than it was before the mob came in. American Airlines was another beneficiary of the reddit trade. It wasnt stopped though. |
Oh, dear! First world problems! |
The risk is angering the hedge funds. |
It's one day away from options expiry. They are forcing one group of investors to lose their shirts in order to protect another group of investors from losing theirs. |
And we are in the First world! Shocking, right? Run along to another thread. |
Oh, shut up. India is taking part in this game as well. |