Hey guys I was thinking if the MOASS were to be ignited and somewhere along the lines the brokerage firms were to be vaporized an are experiencing liquidity issues, is it possible for them to liquidate your position and close your position out to a price that fits “them” , Seeing that the DTC are requiring new liquidity requirements just makes me question and just thinking about how most brokers don’t really have your shares with them and can’t even locate them if they were to be margin called and vaporized were would your “shares” go from that point?… also don’t the brokers when they have sold your “shares” when you are trying to sell, while GameStop is ripping 🚀 dont they have to go the open market to buy that share in order complete that sell order… but there so many real shares in existence and you were holding a synthetic, Does computershare fix these well most of these concerns and your professional retard opinion will computer share. Computershare does convert your synthetic shares into real ones right guys??? Sincerely, -smooth brain (P.S 🍌 here’s some leftover bananas but if u are curious if I have a 9 🍆 “if you insist” *unzips pants)

Howdy folks,

Considering consolidating investment accounts and wanted to move holdings from one brokerage firm to another. Will this trigger a sale and then make me have to rebuy the holdings at the new firm? I know when I do account transfers for IRA accounts it just moves the holdings over, is it different for standard brokerage accounts?

Thanks

I’m new to investing so the only broker I know or got is Robinhood. What brokers do you guys use and why is it better or worse than Robinhood? What would you recommend for a newbie like me and for someone that begins to gain experience?

edit: wow thanks everyone! i didn't expect so many responses! very helpful!

Any difference between them?

If both are possible, which one is better?

So, I am slowly moving many stocks out of my Robinhood, into my M1 portfolio's' I like M1 a lot, but I see the stocks are out of my Robinhood, but not transferred into M1 yet is there always a day lag? DOES M1 transfer my holdings at the best possible price, during market hours I guess? I love the 2% margin rate btw:)!

Any wrinkle brains feel free to discuss why this can or can not be done.

AMC 🚀🌙!!

Good day,

Went to bdo earlier today and asked them how to open a USD account, they asked me what's the purpose and told them its for trading stocks. was informed its not allowed so planning to check with other branch/bank soon but probably with a more valid excuse. Il be using the USD account to fund interactive brokers so I can buy foreign stocks.

Any advise on how can I open one for the purpose of funding balance for stock trading is appreciated, thanks much.

AMC 🚀🌙!!

I have an upcoming round of interviews (motivational and technical) for an internship position at a top REIB/brokerage in the UK, I am not from a real estate background so when I see questions like "What would you look for in an office building" or "What is your favourite buidling in X city" I'm not sure how to approach answering, especially the latter question.

I would appreciate any pointers you guys can offer, regarding the above or in terms of what to prepare in general. Thanks!

Hello all,

I appreciate any insight to my questions! I have been a commercial real estate appraiser for the past 8 years and I am looking to move into brokerage. I am wondering what everyone has to say about starting out in the larger firms (JLL, CBRE, Colliers, etc.) or a smaller boutique firm? There are a few job openings in my area from these larger companies. There is also a somewhat small boutique firm, compared to these large companies, that has been around for 30 years with multiple agents/staff. Their focus is in the area where I live which is a suburb of a metro city that makes me strongly consider this company but I’m unsure if the training at larger companies is worth it? Do the larger companies get more opportunities?

Thanks again!

Background: I am new to investing and currently have a SYFE account with negligible amount invested. The whole idea for me was to learn the basics and keep researching. I have spent last few months doing that.

Now I want to get actively involved and buy individual stocks or DIY.

I am still a big fan of bonds. So stock investing is a secondary approach. My goal is to keep fees and costs as low as possible.

Trading 212 has a big wait list. I heard of IBKR also. But anyone else could suggest the best/cost-effective platform especially for beginners like me?

Opening statement

First, let me just remind everyone that hedge funds created more synthetic shares or IOUs and used them to "return" their borrowed shares making it seem like they have already covered their short positions thus lowering the reported Short Interest %

This is why financial analysts keep saying the SI% is much higher because of this practice.

So here's what happens in the world of naked shorting:

There are three (3) parties or sometimes more but I'll use three for this DD: The company, The hedge fund, and The brokerage firm.

In this DD, I will use AMC as the company, Robinhood as the brokerage firm, and Citadel as the hedge fund (These are just examples to make things less complicated.)

In the market, an investor will only bet on something if the odds are in his favor. So, Citadel shorts AMC down to oblivion due to the decline of movie-goers because of the pandemic. To EXPEDITE the decline of AMC price per share, Citadel will contact Robinhood and pay the brokerage firm to sell millions and millions of AMC shares in the market. These shares that Robinhood is selling are not real shares. These are called "Syntethic Shares".

If the price of AMC keeps going up due to the demand of retail investors, Citadel will keep shorting it through legal shorting and naked shorting until it drops again.

Now, Robinhood will do whatever it takes to hide this practice (even in their books) because this is HIGHLY ILLEGAL and because the selling of shares is not reported, short sales are not reported to the market. Now that there are more AMC shares in the market, the price go down severly. The worst part is everyone thinks it is because nobody wants to go to the movies anymore while in fact it was orchestrated by Citadel and the puppet Robinhood.

Now the accounting works like this:

Citadel OWES the real shares to Robinhood equal to the amount of shares sold to the market by Robinhood. Now, Robinhood owes them to the PEOPLE who BOUGHT the IOUs or Synthetic Shares. Now, this is a LIABILITY to Robinhood and they try to hide this by transfering it to another company like offshore companies of Citadel. On the balance sheet, This will go in the "Securities Sold but Not Yet Purchased" account of the Liablities section. (BTW, this "Liability" sometimes is far greater than their assets. That is why they hide it from auditors.)

If Citadel cannot find any shares to replace what Robinhood had sold in the market, Robinhood will g

Need to open a brokerage account to buy ETFs and REITs. Should I go w/ my bank's investment unit or open an outside brokerage firm. The pros and cons of each would be nice to know. Got around $100k to bet on these 2 investment assets. Oh does not need to be US Equity. Thanks in advance!

Serious question. I have a existing account setup at a transfer agent and requested to send some shares from TDA to that agent (via DRS). Why does it take so much longer for TDA to execute that transaction compared to other brokers (Fidelity, IBKR, etc)? There is no reason it should take longer than 5 business days. It is simply an account to account transfer, someone just needs to input the information?

This transaction can't be that hard to process on your end, so if it is lack of employees, why not hired some short term help or pivot other employees, to facilitate the requests? Can you please explain why it takes longer, other than there is currently a high demand to perform DRS's? I feel like that is a solvable problem, short term.

TDA is my preferred brokerage firm. I love TOS, app, and overall usability of your platform. I'm just a customer asking some questions...

Update: I started the transfer process to Fidelity.

UPdate2: Shares settled at Fidelity, initiated DRS transfer, x,xxx shares on the way! Told it could take up to one business week due to the large amount of requests. Agent on the line was obligated to inform me that it may be hard to sell shares not associated with a broker's office.

I am looking for a firm to open a Roth IRA that is best for me. I am pretty inexperienced when it comes to investing, I know the basics and that’s about it. For my Roth IRA I would pretty much just like to throw money into it and not have to think about it or trade within it until my retirement. I am also interested in possibly opening a brokerage account where I would pretty much do the same thing (throw money into it and let it grow with no constant monitoring and trading). Which firms are the best ones for this With the least amount of fees? I think I have narrowed it down to Fidelity and Charles Schwab and possibly Vanguard but mainly the first two. Any tips or advice are greatly appreciated. Thanks fellas

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Hello all I have seemingly been on a endless missions on trying to find brokers that allow auto buying for individual stocks. It seems most them do mutual funds only and deny you the opportunity to build your own portfolio of stocks. I’m aware that M1 offers something like this but I really don’t like there interface. Robinhood has this service but I’m not really hearing good things about them either does anyone know of any other brokers that offer this service?

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Noob here with a noob question.

I have some stocks in a portfolio at a big name brokerage firm. It's something setup for me from a company I used to work for because I exercised and kept some of the stock options. I didn't touch it for a long time. It's my fault for being ignorant about investing, I could have used those assets better. But overall, I made some money from sitting on it, so blind luck worked in my favor so far.

I believe I should start by diversifying instead of holding stocks of a single company. But that brokerage firm charges a lot of fees. It was fine so far because I never did anything with it. Now that I want to learn to be more hands on, I realized everything I do, buy, sell, I'll get charged a fee.

What I found is I could move my portfolio to another well known brokerage firm that actually doesn't charge any fees for when I buy/sell stocks.

What's the catch? Why are some brokerage firms expensive and some don't charge any fees? Is it a no-brainer that I should just move my portfolio over?

Thanks!

In the modern world, Let’s early 1900’s where did people buy stocks from? What companies were around for people to buy public stock, I know eTrade and Ameritrade didn’t exist in 1900, so where did people buy their stocks from ?

Opening statement

First, let me just remind everyone that hedge funds created more synthetic shares or IOUs and used them to "return" their borrowed shares making it seem like they have already covered their short positions thus lowering the reported Short Interest %

This is why financial analysts keep saying the SI% is much higher because of this practice.

So here's what happens in the world of naked shorting:

There are three (3) parties or sometimes more but I'll use three for this DD: The company, The hedge fund, and The brokerage firm.

In this DD, I will use AMC as the company, Robinhood as the brokerage firm, and Citadel as the hedge fund (These are just examples to make things less complicated.)

In the market, an investor will only bet on something if the odds are in his favor. So, Citadel shorts AMC down to oblivion due to the decline of movie-goers because of the pandemic. To EXPEDITE the decline of AMC price per share, Citadel will contact Robinhood and pay the brokerage firm to sell millions and millions of AMC shares in the market. These shares that Robinhood is selling are not real shares. These are called "Synthetic Shares".

If the price of AMC keeps going up due to the demand of retail investors, Citadel will keep shorting it through legal shorting and naked shorting until it drops again.

Now, Robinhood will do whatever it takes to hide this practice (even in their books) because this is HIGHLY ILLEGAL and because the selling of shares is not reported, short sales are not reported to the market. Now that there are more AMC shares in the market, the price go down severely. The worst part is everyone thinks it is because nobody wants to go to the movies anymore while in fact it was orchestrated by Citadel and the puppet Robinhood.

Now the accounting works like this:

Citadel OWES the real shares to Robinhood equal to the amount of shares sold to the market by Robinhood. Now, Robinhood owes them to the PEOPLE who BOUGHT the IOUs or Synthetic Shares. Now, this is a LIABILITY to Robinhood and they try to hide this by transferring it to another company like offshore companies of Citadel. On the balance sheet, This will go in the "Securities Sold but Not Yet Purchased" account of the Liabilities section. (BTW, this "Liability" sometimes is far greater than their assets. That is why they hide it from auditors.)

If Citadel cannot find any shares to replace what Robinhood had sold in the market, Robinhood wi

Trading the financial markets is no easy task and as intermediaries between traders and security assets, these features are particularly required to be integrated in brokerage firms to ensure the best trading experience for users Risk management Simple User interface Security User centered services such as loan grant And customer care These features take off a lot of stress and strain off traders giving them the opportunity to make good financial decisions. That is why users love WBroker a brokerage firm which encompasses all above listed features and a whole lot more, with emphasizes on user centered services such as wealth management services, loan grants and stick filters