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Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

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Re: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

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Same with TD Ameritrade. Fidelity seems to still allow trading for now.

I guess the simultaneous outage wasn’t coincidental. Fidelity did not suffer and outage. I could be wrong but Vanguard was fine too

EDIT

Robinhood's customer(s) are hedge funds like Citadel. I believe it was Citadel who offered Melvin Capital a lifeline. I wonder what the rationale is for TD Ameritrade, and the others?

Re: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

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post #5

Yep, as of last night RH had also delisted 1/29 options for GME. 2/6 options are still available, which maybe points to RH hoping/thinking this all unwinds in the next few days. Sign me up for the class action...

Don't the ToS include a waiver of taking any legal action against RH, class action suits in particular, and a binding arbitration clause in case you really want to make some noise?

Re: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

#13

If they were just blocking margin trading or trades with unlimited risk that would be one thing. But this smacks of either paternalism or trying to manipulate the market. I hope they lose a lot of customers (or product depending on your POV).

It's absolutely paternalism, IMO. I'm less sure whether I think it's a good thing or not (because I think people buying new positions in GME at this point are unlikely to end up happy about that in mid-Feb.)

I'm all for "let 'em play" in general but this is not going to end well for a lot of folks...

Re: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

#14

Wow. First the Discord ban and then this - clearly the billionaire hedge fund managers have been busy pulling strings overnight. Limiting it so you can't buy, you can only sell... Very clearly helping the hedge funds here.

The head of NASDAQ even suggested a Tradimg Halt so institutions can adjust to combat retail investors better!

Re: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

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post #5

Yep, as of last night RH had also delisted 1/29 options for GME. 2/6 options are still available, which maybe points to RH hoping/thinking this all unwinds in the next few days. Sign me up for the class action...

Don't the ToS include a waiver of taking any legal action against RH, class action suits in particular, and a binding arbitration clause in case you really want to make some noise?

Almost certainly. Don't expect the SEC to step in here, either.

Re: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

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post #5

Yep, as of last night RH had also delisted 1/29 options for GME. 2/6 options are still available, which maybe points to RH hoping/thinking this all unwinds in the next few days. Sign me up for the class action...

Don't the ToS include a waiver of taking any legal action against RH, class action suits in particular, and a binding arbitration clause in case you really want to make some noise?

Is having a clause like that in your ToS legal?
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