https://nypost.com/video/badass-woman-destroys-watermelons-with-her-thighs/
Keep one of these ladies around during the height of the watermelon season.
Article is 22 years out of date. Since then commissions have collapsed. We have had the meme stock phenomena. Quote spreads are now in pennies
We need statistics on average daily day trading volume.
Anybody?
It sounds like a broker who offered special deals to hedge funds. They performed a cost analysis and realized that the profits, risk and the time to service these hedge funds no longer met their desired bottom line.
It happens. The file where the information on short sale availability is stored gets corrupted and denies the availability of stock to borrow for shorting. It is usually cleared up by the time the regular session opens.
If you believe that gov't bureaucrats can provide better a outcome than millions of people and businesses acting in their owns interests a.k.a. free market how much room is left for discussion?