MrMan

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by MrMan 6y ago
Brokers! Provide short term funding. T+2 is a fact of life in North American equities trading.
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by MrMan 6y ago
Because they are better at growth hacking than providing a service
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by MrMan 6y ago
Comments that start with saying "I don't buy" the real-world non-simple explanation, even in the face of mountains of real world evidence, are not in the spirit of any site that pretends to be some kind of better place. Consp
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by MrMan 6y ago
RH might well be incompetent - I dont understand why we are discussing them when their offering is inferior to basically all other brokerages. people should switch away from bad products / services
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by MrMan 6y ago
without short selling market down moves become more crash-y - short sellers buy (to realize profit) as the stock goes down which tends to support the price. without buyers, an out of favor stock might keep going down in price and have maybe
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by MrMan 6y ago
thank you
937.
by MrMan 6y ago
it's gamblers vs other gamblers, the size of their stakes dont matter much for purposes of sorting them.
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by MrMan 6y ago
no saying "Eternal September" ruins it. That or "correlation does not equal causation"
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by MrMan 6y ago
what? banks just lend money and are scared of defaults. what do banks have to do with this? the power company is complicit by providing electricity too? if you against banking, you have bigger fish to fry
940.
by MrMan 6y ago
because a lot of them are on the street or big funds
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by MrMan 6y ago
you cant tell if someone has a naked short position on. they are exceedingly rare, and most likely ephemeral, and most likely caused by a back-office error rather than deliberately. i dont think you know what you are saying
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by MrMan 6y ago
yes the GME crowd-source scenario is definitely market manipulation, it is the very definition of it. the question is, can any single person or group of people be identified as culpable? that is the beauty of it, in a way.
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by MrMan 6y ago
this comment is a lot of non-sense
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by MrMan 6y ago
If the commenters here mostly can’t understand that explanation how are even more regular people going to ? Instead they will just “not buy” the explanation and look for conspiracies
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by MrMan 6y ago
I would never use a brokerage started by SV hucksters
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by MrMan 6y ago
This is about settlement on the back end.
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by MrMan 6y ago
Investment ? Not sure about that
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by MrMan 6y ago
why have 2 different brokers? Days like this are exactly why you should always have more than one bank and more than one broker !
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by MrMan 6y ago
What much larger slip ? Risk management practices?
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by MrMan 6y ago
Which system evolved partly to make it more straightforward for custody to be resolved when a broker goes out of business
951.
by MrMan 6y ago
My rep at fidelity said they don’t really have the same offerings.
952.
by MrMan 6y ago
Making an app and running a brokerage - who would have thought they are two different things.
953.
by MrMan 6y ago
Because they are a bush league broker
954.
by MrMan 6y ago
use a better broker! dont be a mark
955.
by MrMan 6y ago
no the pump and dump part means that WSB arguably exists as a kind of ion cannon like Anon used to be, where if you can convince a sizable number of community members to commit to a proposed course of action, you can create a reflexive effe
956.
by MrMan 6y ago
RH are victims of their successful business model!
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by MrMan 6y ago
WSB certainly seems to have been pumped up by RH business and vice versa.
958.
by MrMan 6y ago
I think one of the original messages of HN was "start a business" partly because investing in those new businesses was what Pg wanted to do for a living. why don't you embrace that message? it seems healthier than complaining
959.
by MrMan 6y ago
why would you ever use it? to experience random outages and poor execution?
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by MrMan 6y ago
to the extent that the market needs speculators, I think it is part of the "goal" of capital markets. a market of only long-term risk-averse allocators wont have the liquidity necessary to create fair prices nor is it likely to at

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