{"id":50763,"date":"2021-02-01T16:31:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50763"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:32:16","slug":"the-brokers-are-breaking-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50763","title":{"rendered":"The Brokers Are Breaking&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update (1001\u00a0ET):<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0The list of discount brokerage houses experiencing issues and outages this morning continues to expand. Add Charles Schwab to the mix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01_09-58-48.png?itok=-3FIHLA5\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01_09-58-48.png?itok=-3FIHLA5\" 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\/2021-02-01_09-58-48.png?itok=-3FIHLA5\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4a713f93-66b2-4ec2-afbd-a1118bb47f26\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_align__N0_fw Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>With another day of most shorted stocks ramping higher, most notably the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/its-been-nuts-silver-surges-most-lehman-bankruptcy-hits-7-year-high-over-30\">squeeze in silver<\/a>,\u00a0users of multiple discount retail brokerages are reporting issues or outages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1356249535308296193&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fbrokers-are-breaking-again&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1356249535308296193\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/\">Downdetector<\/a>\u00a0reports Fidelity, E-Trade, Robinhood, and Ameritrade are experiencing issues and outages as the US cash session opens up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01_0.jpg?itok=3DF_HlPH\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01_0.jpg?itok=3DF_HlPH\" 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\/2021-02-01_0.jpg?itok=3DF_HlPH\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"53480389-0168-4505-a69d-1cece021b0a8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timeline of issues and outages at Robinhood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01-2.jpg?itok=DBiM6msq\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01-2.jpg?itok=DBiM6msq\" 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\/2021-02-01-2.jpg?itok=DBiM6msq\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"211\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e753e8d3-09f4-4e52-9c80-bd89688d70c8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_align__N0_fw Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>On a geographic basis, the issues and outages with Robinhood are widespread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01-1.jpg?itok=7aQ_J9nN\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01-1.jpg?itok=7aQ_J9nN\" 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\/2021-02-01-1.jpg?itok=7aQ_J9nN\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"35de3821-b620-4eb7-bc76-132792597708\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reuters&#8217; Most Shorted Index jumped more than 2% this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01_09-41-00.png?itok=uN1Mybjc\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-01_09-41-00.png?itok=uN1Mybjc\" 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\/2021-02-01_09-41-00.png?itok=uN1Mybjc\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"bc2ba0e5-26cd-43c6-8f92-77740017da56\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*This story is developing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/brokers-are-breaking-again\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/brokers-are-breaking-again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-50763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50763","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=50763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}