{"id":50159,"date":"2021-01-28T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50159"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:38:42","slug":"wow-will-this-extremely-crude-type-of-market-manipulation-become-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50159","title":{"rendered":"WOW! Will this extremely crude type of market manipulation become the new normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Retail Brokerages Suffer Another &#8216;Coordinated&#8217; Outage As Short-Squeeze Surge Spreads<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>As retail panic trades most shorted stocks, a widespread outage of popular brokerage houses is being reported\u00a0as the cash session begins. This seems to be the norm in the last couple of sessions, preventing some retail traders from participating in massive squeezes of Gamestop and AMC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/\">Downdetector<\/a>\u00a0reports Thursday morning that users of Robinhood, TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, and Webull are reporting issues and outages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-28.jpg?itok=d0SqkuGV\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-28.jpg?itok=d0SqkuGV\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-01-28.jpg?itok=d0SqkuGV\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"235\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"400eaada-18eb-4da9-9cc0-519181fffdd7\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a geographic level, users of Robinhood are experiencing problems and outages across the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-28_09-45-59.png?itok=pUMd3OrL\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-28_09-45-59.png?itok=pUMd3OrL\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-01-28_09-45-59.png?itok=pUMd3OrL\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"501\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ba174bf3-941a-427c-b6f0-785d9b670f36\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robinhood confirmed Thursday morning, about thirty minutes after the cash session began, that users are<strong>\u00a0experiencing issues with &#8220;equities, options, and crypto trading.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0The popular online brokerage app said disruption is with the IOS, Android, and web app.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<strong>simultaneous\u00a0<\/strong>(and some have said\u00a0<strong>coordinated<\/strong>) outage of many popular retail brokerage platforms and apps\u00a0<strong>seems odd<\/strong>\u00a0given that\u00a0<strong>volume is 30%\u00a0below yesterday&#8217;s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-28-1.jpg?itok=jY_A2m1v\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-28-1.jpg?itok=jY_A2m1v\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-01-28-1.jpg?itok=jY_A2m1v\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ab12eda2-fde3-48d8-9f87-8662daccba73\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished? Shut retail traders out of markets for stability reasons? After all, Wall Street can&#8217;t be embarrassed by another retail induced short squeeze of popular stock names that blows up even more heavily levered hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/retail-brokerages-suffer-another-coordinated-outage-short-squeeze-surge-spreads\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/retail-brokerages-suffer-another-coordinated-outage-short-squeeze-surge-spreads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail Brokerages Suffer Another &#8216;Coordinated&#8217; Outage As Short-Squeeze Surge Spreads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}