Gentlemen, you've just been whipped, fucked, and driven from the land, as Patrick Byrne has said.
This, I hear, is the straw that is breaking the camel's back. It is SOP, standard operating procedure, and law is on it. It is outrageous, indicates a tremendous lack of talent, and a ruthlessness that has to stop, and quickly.
Wall St. is begging for mercy, and they pull shit like this. And then, they don't break the trades. It's just a ploy to make money, and some folks got hurt.
You lost 300?? You got screwed out of 300. With your expertise, you acted on a situation that you beieved offered profit potential. It was all manipulated, and you got trapped. You could have been totally screwed. Now, UAL has to spend time and money getting to the bottom of someting that never should have happened. The naked shorts knocked the company out in 2002, per Gene Marcial in BW They are trying it again.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2002/nf2002108_4601.htm