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Re:An Update from Robinhood’s Founders by benmanns on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @10:47PM (#22481050)
Those are automatically exercised at expiration.
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Re:An Update from Robinhood’s Founders by Itsdijital on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @10:55PM (#22481080)
If the holder can afford to exercise, and I can assure you that most RH users cannot afford to exercise a single contract(at least on most commonly traded stocks).

Otherwise it's on the broker to sell it at close to someone who can afford to exercise. And who knows if RH pulled that off or not.

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Re:An Update from Robinhood’s Founders by benmanns on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:01PM (#22481099)
I haven't seen official statement, but I did see a couple reddit threads where Robinhood exercised ITM calls without enough funding in the account, then collected the shares and paid the cash difference.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fcqkmo/so_r...

There's also some threads where it looks like it did not go so well...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fd2eko/upda...

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Re:An Update from Robinhood’s Founders by itake on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @10:57PM (#22481088)
If their systems are down, were they actually exercised or is that managed by another brokerage?
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