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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 3707487, member: 1452"]
So, we are 8 pages into this thread and, other than the margin-related restrictions mentioned in one of the posts by Fat Tire, there has been zero mention of the fact that DTCC raised industrywide collateral requirements by 27% overnight and that Robinhood had to raise an additional 1BN of capital and draw down on 500MM of credit lines in order to meet the increased margin requirements.

So, while I would not put it past people like Cohen and Griffin to exert whatever pressure they could if they felt financially threatened, there is an equally, if not more, plausible explanation for Robinhood restricting trading in certain names: jacked-up margin requirements.

It isn't sexy; it doesn't generate outrage.  It doesn't get your tweet retweeted a gazillion times and pasted into this thread.  It doesn't get AOC and Cruz into the headlines but it is a very real alternative for what happened this week.

Instead of rushing to judgement and embracing the worst possible alternative, how about waiting for the facts to come out?

This thread reminds me of so much of what happened post-election: so many claims and accusations of fraud that were immediately embraced and perpetuated that were all ultimately decreed to have no merit by the courts.
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