dear god.
this is why you don't mess with options when brokers sites are crashing left and right.
this guy accidentally bought 10K GME calls Feb 05 570 strike
by the time he logged in this morning (RBC site was dead) his account got liquidated
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01-28-2021, 09:56 AM #11251
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01-28-2021, 10:00 AM #11252
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01-28-2021, 10:05 AM #11253
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01-28-2021, 10:05 AM #11254
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01-28-2021, 10:07 AM #11255
mind boggling how stupid people are in the market, especially with options. I spent hours and hours of research trying to figure out every angle before creating a single contract for a covered call, meanwhile idiots like the guy above are down a quarter million
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01-28-2021, 10:08 AM #11256
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01-28-2021, 10:10 AM #11257
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01-28-2021, 10:10 AM #11258
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He used margin.
"I decided to buy 100 OTM (Feb 05 570 strike) calls and put in a market order for them before market opened. I estimated the price to be around $100 at most. It ended up filling for just a bit over at 110. That part was fine. But instead of buying 100 calls, I bought 100 contracts. 10,000 calls. I don't think even I'm retarded enough to forget 1 call contract = 100 calls. I'm thinking it was some kind of glitch in their system. Of course I only slept 6 hours last night, so my brain could possibly have crashed.
For some reason, the order went through and I was down nearly a million in cash. I rushed to sell, but my broker's (Royal Bank of Canada) was down. By the time it was back up, GME had crashed. RBC liquidated all my calls for far below what my buy order filled at and destroyed my account. Then, as we all know, GME rebounded. If they didn't touch any of my positions I would have been fine. Taken a big loss maybe but not negative $300k in cash. The interest charged for negative balances is 21% annually."
edit: Actually wait.
he bought 100 calls (those calls feb 5th 570$ strike) were $110 this morning.
so he bought $1.1 million worth of call options.
right now those contracts are trading at $55 each.
why would broker sell on him? he got margin called on wait down? broker protecting their margin? thinking gme will crash and burn.Last edited by Carbonfibre; 01-28-2021 at 10:22 AM.
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01-28-2021, 10:11 AM #11259
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01-28-2021, 10:16 AM #11260
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01-28-2021, 10:17 AM #11261
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01-28-2021, 10:18 AM #11262
- Join Date: May 2009
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I used to have an AVI of my traps and neck. I changed it a while back and tried editing my user title but this website is glitched and it will not let me change it anymore.
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01-28-2021, 10:25 AM #11263
AOC is a kunt. She turns this into attention by mentioning the "devastating capital attacks" and asks Ted Cruz to resign
These people are so full of themselves
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01-28-2021, 10:26 AM #11264
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How legit is WeBull?
Anyone file taxes with RobinHood and WeBull?
I’m in a 2 day acceptance period on WeBull now, was only going in to buy GME and AMC.Super Saiyan Crew
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01-28-2021, 10:30 AM #11265
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That guy messed up big not paying attention to what he was doing... that sucks.
But I really didn't think most places let you buy options on margin. On top of that, why in the ever loving fuk would they let him have $1mil in margin on a single position?
Yeah, most of my options are done in another account where it's $1 per contract to open, no fee to close. Not ideal, but manageable. I just don't think I want to deal with RH anymore.Misc Firearms Crew
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01-28-2021, 10:36 AM #11266
Bought back into GME 10 shares @ 208 just because I want to join the movement srs
Sold off all of my other meme stocks (NOK/BB/BBBY/NAKD/AMC)
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01-28-2021, 10:36 AM #11267
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Fidelity FTW, get their 2% cash back card too and you rebates go straight to your investing account.
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01-28-2021, 10:37 AM #11268
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01-28-2021, 10:39 AM #11269
I see there’s a lawsuit being filed against Robinhood but it’s in the Southern District New York which means forget about it. That’s the worst court system on the planet and their only job is to protect the bankers/Wall Street.
It’s chit like this that cements my belief that a decade from now, the financial capitals of the world won’t be NYC and London, but Moscow and Beijing.
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01-28-2021, 10:39 AM #11270
In on nok with 3900 shares too. i think it's a decent hold wsb pump or not.
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01-28-2021, 10:40 AM #11271
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01-28-2021, 10:45 AM #11273
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01-28-2021, 10:46 AM #11274A lot of girls say I'm built like a "Tank"
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01-28-2021, 10:48 AM #11275
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yeah cause that guy is really shouldn't be touching options since he clearly had no idea what he was doing.
pretty sure he wanted to say
I wanted to buy 1 Call option (100 shares) ($11K buy)
he accidentally bought 100 calls ($110 per each contract) (10K shares) ($1.1 million)
time to file for bankruptcyLast edited by Carbonfibre; 01-28-2021 at 11:03 AM.
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01-28-2021, 10:51 AM #11276
Do you guys think Robinhood is still safe? I have some play money on there, like 20K on there or so.
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01-28-2021, 10:55 AM #11277
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01-28-2021, 10:56 AM #11278
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