[ilikehurdles]

You couldn’t buy any of the stocks with settled cash. Why keep bringing up margin and leverage and credit cards? Several other brokers did halt buying after Alpha Clearinghouse said they couldn’t fulfill them — but that block from the clearinghouse lasted a few hours on a few securities. Robinhood blocked a lot more securities for the entirety of the day.

There’s this need to paint retail investors as incapable of understanding margin and leverage to bias the conversation and make them seem in need of being rescued from themselves — but robinhood hurt a lot more than just those over-leveraged people (not that they would be justified in hurting any of them).

I had small positions in the app for the last year after starting an etrade account — none of them in memes and none of them on margin, none of them blocked by RH’s actions - and I will be joining the people exiting and closing their accounts.

If you’re looking for a casual broker that doesn’t behave unethically and incentivizes safe and informed investing for newbies, take a look at Public[1].

[1]: https://medium.com/the-public-blog/a-note-on-access-with-res...