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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

#21
Pretty staggering hubris from the company whose shoddy software used to offer "infinite leverage"[0] to make themselves the self-appointed guardians of responsible investing.

Maybe one of these newly-minted millionaires can cash out and use their gains to sue.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/robinhood...

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

#22
post #16

I wonder if this is just for after hours trading. You would think the user could at least place an order for execution when the market opens. GME was up over $100 pre-market when I got up this morning, so someone somewhere is buying.

In the night, GME went from 350 to 250 USD as well; this was when Discord had been banned and the Reddit suspended (both for moderation / hate speech issue).

The variations are extreme, in the morning it was hitting 500 USD in the morning, and now 400 USD.

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

#25
Ah cool so does this mean that all the other stocks are safe and will only make me money? Very cool of Robin Hood to protect me from ever being exposed to any risk like this. It’s just really cool to know that they remove the ones that can lose me money.

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

#26
Can someone help me understand Robinhood's POV? This just seems so outrageous that there must be some sane rationale that I'm not seeing.

Why do Robinhood, Reddit, Discord, etc feel like they have to respond to this? Whether the investments being made are responsible or not, it doesn't seem like it should be their place to intervene.

If the hedge funds over-shorted GME and WSB recognized that and traded against that bad analysis, then that's great! If the pendulum swung the other direction and WSB is trading into some momentum, how is that any different than the hedge funds doing the same with shorts? Why should Robinhood pick a winner (siding against their own customers)?

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

#27

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!

We're close to reaching a "let them have cake" point of elite arrogance.

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

#28
So only big shot hedge funds are allowed to manipulate the market and get away with it? How dare the common man shift the balance of power, that too by playing totally within the rules!?

Seriously, if a fund did this, they'd be patting themselves on the back, and would have had little to no backlash from their brokers.

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