Posted on 02/01/2021 12:15:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
yes, but the price dropped bc of forced trades.
DTC is shadowy? The author is a few cards short of a full deck.
I thought you might be interested in this Civil War related thread.
Issued to who???? The shorts?
Did the author even read the article? Lol I got 1\2way... I know a lot of freepers didnt. Robin hood should have just come clean at the start... Looks like they are going to lose a lot of customers for the wrong reason.
[Issued to who???? The shorts?]
To anyone who wants to buy the new shares. Do I really need to post that?
Why would they sell them at $150 instead of the recent market prices? ($350-$250)? Do you think they are idiots?
What I received in my email account on Monday.
A note from Robinhood
We wanted to reach out to you after a transformative week in the markets to answer a question we know many of you are asking: “Why did Robinhood limit certain stocks?”
We understand that the temporary limits we placed on certain stocks this past week were frustrating for many, especially since we built Robinhood to expand access to investing. We have always sought to put our customers first and we want you to be able to invest on your own terms.
To help explain what happened and why we had to take action, we wrote a letter to our customers and captured the key understandings for you below:
For Robinhood to operate, we must meet clearinghouse deposit requirements to support customer trades.
Deposit requirements are determined in part by how much stock a firm’s customers hold. If a firm’s customers’ holdings are volatile, a broker (in this instance Robinhood) is obligated to meet higher deposit requirements.
Last week, in part due to volatility in some popular stocks, Robinhood’s deposit requirements rose tenfold. The combination of the deposit increase and the extraordinary increase in volume on these particular symbols led us to put temporary buying restrictions in place on a small number of those stocks.
We had to take steps to limit buying in those volatile stocks to ensure we could comfortably meet our deposit obligations. We didn’t want to stop people from buying stocks and we certainly weren’t trying to help hedge funds.
We hope you take away this: at Robinhood, we stand with everyday investors participating in the markets. Standing by our Robinhood community means being there for our customers through any trading environment. We’ll continue to improve as we break down barriers in the financial system to open it for all.
Thank you for being a part of the Robinhood community.
Sincerely,
The Robinhood Team
Right, yet again, Democrats doing what Democrats do.
No change there.
And what they have done since they were Republicans back in 1861. Same liberal power hungry bastards then, same liberal power hungry bastards now, and all still from the Northeastern part of the country.
They were never Republicans, always Democrats, always allied with the dominant Democrats in Washington, DC., just as today.
Sure, during the CW itself, many Northern Democrats supported the Union, at least half-heartedly, i.e, Democrat Gen. McClellan.
But that was not the first instinct of New York's globalist Democrats, rather, they wanted to secede too!
They were not Republicans, then or now.
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