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I transferred some assets from RH to fidelity...and it’s showing my shares as “positions held in margin” even tho I never did margin trading with RH...ultimately I will call fidelity and find out but a quick search says that all RH trading counts as margin trading on the low so idk how true that is
apparently, they put every customer in a margin account
that's how they give you the instant deposit feature
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I transferred some assets from RH to fidelity...and it’s showing my shares as “positions held in margin” even tho I never did margin trading with RH...ultimately I will call fidelity and find out but a quick search says that all RH trading counts as margin trading on the low so idk how true that is
Happened when I moved some stuff from SoFi to Fidelity. I chatted with them and had them remove it from margin. Robinhood's instant account is costless margin. Let's you do instant deposits under $1000.
 

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Happened when I moved some stuff from SoFi to Fidelity. I chatted with them and had them remove it from margin. Robinhood's instant account is costless margin. Let's you do instant deposits under $1000.

so without margin trading on fidelity do you have to wait a couple days for funds to settle when you sell shares before buying anything else?
 

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so without margin trading do you have to wait a couple days for funds to settle when you sell shares before buying anything else?
Fidelity gives me instant deposits but I don't have margin with them. They told me the broker I transfered from labeled the stocks as margin.
 

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The same argument can be made of cable TV. Most of the time nothing is on that's worth watching.

The problem with only producing high quality content is as much of it can't be made and at that point people will sub when they really want to see what you're making and drop it the other times you aren't making one of their shows. At the same time cord cutters need a default service to sub to at all times so they can have constant stuff to watch. That's Netflix. It's the cable TV of streaming services. They pump out so much content there's never nothing to watch. Sometimes people just run a show in the background to have noise.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is Apple who seems to make solid quality shows but can't produce enough of them to fully populate their service.
lol...you're out of touch. cord cutters - of which i'm one - have way more than netflix to turn to, it's no where near the cable of streaming services, and whether there's something to watch depends on how low your bar is for entertainment
 
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Fidelity gives me instant deposits but I don't have margin with them. They told me the broker I transfered from labeled the stocks as margin.

ok I’m reading thru fidelity’s trading FAQs now...in particular intraday buying power balance vs. margin buying power...seems there are a couple things I took for granted with RH that may operate differently on fidelity
 

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lol...you're out of touch. cord cutters - of which i'm one -have nore than netflix to turn, it's no where near the cable of streaming services, and whether there's something to watch depends on how low your bar is for entertainment
Unless you're pirating if you rotate through services as they have the shows you want or don't then a home base is still needed.

You say I'm out of touch and call Netflix quality into question but they have hundreds of millions of subs and grow that number with an allegedly shyt quality of shows. The reason for that is simple for cord cutters Netflix is the default streaming platform.

If all these other better quality services are around why aren't Netflix subs more cyclical?
 

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Right, because logging in and scrolling through junk for 30 mins just to log out having found nothing to watch, then burying “my list” under like 7 other lists of what they want to promote, and switching to thumbs up/down which has given me shyt recommendations since is a great user experience :usure:

Netflix is definitely temp sub and binge, disconnect status. I’m bout to upset my family and let them know I’m turning it off.
How dare you:ufdup:
 

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How dare you:ufdup:
When someone in the Netflix circle disconnects a new member gets added to replace them. I literally pay for Netflix so my parents can watch. I hardly watch it but I've subbed for almost a decade just for them. I mean I watch certain shows but if it were just for me I would only have it 5 months a year. Then again due to my job I have cable free with all the premiums.
 
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