> no reason why margin requirements would increase for buyers of a stock but not for the shorts There are tons of reasons why (counter-party risk, correlated r

> no reason why margin requirements would increase for buyers of a stock but not for the shorts There are tons of reasons why (counter-party risk, correlated risk of brokerages with high exposure, T+2 settlement, etc). You seem particularly keen on ignoring them though. > Robinhood may have simply been coerced to do this, but regardless Please stop ignoring known facts in favor of your conspiracy theory. > I and many other retail investors switched to bigger firms that won’t have liquidity issues It is completely logical that larger brokerages will be able to weather liquidity issues more easily. If this was super important to you, going with the discount brokerage was a poor decision in the first place.