That's exactly what is happening right now anyways. Except in the past week many new positions were opened on a broken platform.

If this was Wells Fargo we'd see the pitchforks. But it's a SV company so all is good.

I mean, the investment community knows, and even on other sites there was a lot of encouragement to get -out- before the next disaster struck.

IMO anyone who opened a position on RH in the last week should not be shocked that the same thing happened again in this high volume crapstorm.

If you believe that the platform is so broken that it shouldn't be used (and I'm not arguing against that, btw) then a more reasonable solution would be to only allow position-reducing trades. That would also reduce overall trading volume on their platform.

Not that I expect them to do any of this, just pointing out that 'shut everything down' is not necessarily the best approach.