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Why? Insurance limits on customer deposit are in place to encourage depositors to do due diligence before placing their deposits. Additional deposit insurance could have been bought from private insurance companies. These large depositors should bear the consequence for laziness and/or...

Black Swan events can occur at any time.

Link?

Lots of ifs in your remark. Therefore occurrence is unlikely.

Check prices in an option chain. You are right in pre-opening trading. there is no public option trading Getting short the stock in the pre-opening locks the loss in.

It craters Cramer's ego that she is more famous then him.

Obviously these people don't have mirrors. ;-)

Please explain what you did not understand.

My post was clear to a given moment at time. My assumption as to price is likely to be wrong if news pending turns out to be favorable. My calculation was based upon current price. The stock is down 150 points in 2 days. What is unclear? Current action was an outlier event. If it reverses...

re: SIVB Massive selling of SIVB by naked put writers in pre-opening as writers know stock will be sold to them at much higher prices. Puts are likely 150 points+ in the money. Maybe even market makers were not fully hedged. 10 naked put options would be a $150,000 loss

PFOF is not anti-competitive and more costly. Brokerage firms compete for business with different business models. People are not abandoning Schwab for Interactive Brokers and visa versa.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/blacksto ne-may-slow-launch-private-equity-fund-after-investor-withdrawals-ft-2022-12-10/ ec 10 (Reuters) - Blackstone Inc (BX.N) has warned of possible delays to the launch of a new private equity fund designed for wealthy individuals, as it copes with...

You are entitled to your opinion. My opinion is that you know little about market microstructure and order direction. I have previously presented numbers of the superiority a zero commission and PFOF model.. BUT SO WHAT! you ignored it, which is your right. However stop trying to foist upon...

Thank you.

You asked a question the right way. You provided useful information with your question and gave a thank you for your response. There are numerous posters on ET who can learn from you the proper way to post. Lots of luck.

Sometimes I get the feeling that you have a secret desire to become a haiku composer.:)

Speak for yourself. Some of us have special methods of recovery.

Interesting details but the question is still unanswered why did he kill himself.

It is a big deal that you asked the question. Take it as incentive to upgrade your knowledge of options.

Again, this episode is a lesson in redundancy as used in engineering.