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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by lottin on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:18PM (#25945118)
> However why not just disable margin trading on these stocks instead of shutting them off altogether?

Yes... or simply increase the margin.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by cactus2093 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:54PM (#25945722)
Well I think we're in such uncharted territory here that it would be difficult to trust any risk model, so just increasing the margin may be hard to get right.
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