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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by nfriedly on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:15AM (#25943008)
A charitable guess is that Robinhood is trying to protect their users from buying at the height of this mania.

There are people literally investing their rent money into GME, and it's almost inevitable that the price will come down at some point, the only question is when and how far.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by rchaud on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:17PM (#25945109)
The trade screen could just display a warning that the stocks are in question are experiencing high volatility, and require the user to click something to indicate that they understand the risks.
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