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I believe this explanation but I do still have questions. Why didn't they just restrict buying like they did in Friday instead of halting it completely? By hal
by dyslexit 6y ago
I believe this explanation but I do still have questions.
Why didn't they just restrict buying like they did in Friday instead of halting it completely? By halting it completely they caused a panic which caused lots of people to sell.
Why didn't they halt or restrict buying of any other stocks? Why only the meme stocks? It should have affected their financial responsibilities to the clearinghouse the same ways, no?
Why did they give no warning and explanation for what was about to come? The abruptness of it was obviously going to contribute to the panic.
The standard expiration date for meme stock options was the day after they halted buying. This caused their own customers holding those contracts to lose money. Why did they claim they were doing this "to protect their customers" when it was their customers who got screwed by this?
- tptacek 6y agoNo, clearinghouse requirements can apparently be per-symbol, and it's been reported that that's exactly what happened this week. It's a function of the volatility of the stock and also the proportion of the stock to all stocks being traded at a particular brokerage. There's an actual published formula somewhere on NSCC's site. Why did they give no warning? I don't know, I think they're a clownfire.