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Robinhood crashing isn't an isolated unfortunate "well it happens to everyone" moment.

RH has constantly had issues at least since I started using it over a year ago. I didn't notice it really at first, but I also didn't know much about anything trading related back then. It didn't take long though for me to have my first "incident" where my market orders were seemingly vanishing into the abyss as the underlying moved. I'm not talking seconds, I'm talking minutes. For a market order on high liquidity options. Never mind trying to get filled at anything besides the ask (buying) or bid (selling).

RH has had serious underlying issues for a long time now. This incident didn't happen in vacuum. The writing has been in huge block letters on the wall for a long time.




Selectively delaying market orders by minutes would allow easy arbitrage! Very illegal and very profitable.




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