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Trader loses 130k+ on short, owes eTrade 100k

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Imagine losing every dollar in your current account right now, in 2 hours, while you were away at a meeting. Then imagine tripling that loss and having to liquidate your retirement accounts for you and your wife.

I feel for him, I really do.

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Does anyone know if this happen overnight? If that is the case his Stop (if he had one) would not have been triggered, right? That is what I don't like about exchanges/instruments not working 24 hrs.

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Does anyone know if this happen overnight? If that is the case his Stop (if he had one) would not have been triggered, right? That is what I don't like about exchanges/instruments not working 24 hrs.

Of course it can.

And 24 hours solves nothing. Stocks are halted intraday all the time for news releases.

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Of course it can.

And 24 hours solves nothing. Stocks are halted intraday all the time for news releases.

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Well what I really meant is that on ES for instance you can place a stop to trigger after RTH and sleep well at night. With other instruments like commodities (NYBOT CBOT) you get the gaps the next morning and there is really nothing you can do about it.

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I cant find 1 share of this stock to short. There is none to borrow anywhere. I cant understand how Etrade let him short 9000 shares unless Etrade took the other side of his trade. This whole story sounds bogus to me.

Seems like that took that page off line. https://www.gofundme.com:443/jwctrek

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Well what I really meant is that on ES for instance you can place a stop to trigger after RTH and sleep well at night. With other instruments like commodities (NYBOT CBOT) you get the gaps the next morning and there is really nothing you can do about it.

Index futures are far less likely to experience the same type of event because they are made up of so many underlying equities.

Let's say that tomorrow a nuclear bomb goes off in New York. Then yes, there will be a problem. But the market will be halted and untradeable anyway, plus everyone will have bigger problems.

The solution is this: a) keep the minimum amount necessary to do business in your broker account, b) do not reinvest all your proceeds into the market, c) diversify, d) diversify, e) diversify.

Owning real estate around the globe is probably one of the simplest ways to diversify, in my opinion.

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Owning real estate around the globe is probably one of the simplest ways to diversify, in my opinion.

Tell me about it, I'll need to work the next 30 years to pay my mortgage. Just closed on the house a month ago.

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I do admire the guy for saying he will pay his broker back. Legally, he's on the hook. I don't know what his financial situation is, or how old he is, but 100k is not chump change. People have filed bankruptcy for much less.

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Tell me about it, I'll need to work the next 30 years to pay my mortgage. Just closed on the house a month ago.

Do your homework on a 15-year vs 30-year. If you can't afford the payments on a 15 year then I suspect you can't afford the house. And the cost savings of 15 vs 30 is substantial over the life of the loan, but of course you have to look at tax deductions as well for your specific situation.

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Seems like that took that page off line. https://www.gofundme.com:443/jwctrek

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yes, he said 5K goal reached he will update what he does with the money later.

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yes, he said 5K goal reached he will update what he does with the money later.

Funded campaigns don't get deleted. The fact that it was deleted indicates a different story.

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