James Davis

Brokerage Stocks: Trouble on the Horizon?

IBKR, nothing like being right for the wrong reasons.

Brokerage Stocks: Trouble on the Horizon?

You need to do some more work on IBKR, they make more than 'some' money from prop trading. THEY ARE MARKET MAKERS WORLDWIDE.

Lumping them in with the others is poor workmanship.

They may or may not beat, but it has little to do with retail clients.

Retail Investors Stuck Holding Auction Rate Securities

As I've stated, there was a conspiracy to

1) Create the illusion of a liquid and fair market, where in fact it was a manipulated , contrived one.

2) Pull support simultaneously, so that no one dealer got stuck holding the bag. Better for the customers to have that privilege.

As for the boilerplate in the 'prospectii' as one poster puts it, no one would buy anything ,ever, if every disclaimer was taken at face value.

Since the dealers so willingly maintained the illusion of liquidity and soundness, let them stand behind their Houdini act for the final bow.

That or face permanent reputational damage for at least a generation.

Retail Investors Stuck Holding Auction Rate Securities

Full disclosure: I own 1 of these ARS

There's no question this was , in its final days, a fraudulent market, and a criminal enterprise hosted by the large brokers.

They allowed and encouraged their 'henchmen' aka sales force, to foist these time bombs on unsuspecting customers.

The brokers knew full well these were GUARANTEED to fail, since they were the ones that were about to LET THEM FAIL.

Need to be handled at the criminal level if they refuse to make victims whole.