Robinhood: US family sue trading app over son's suicide

[williamsharris]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55990461

[_wmhc]

Discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26071982

[nemo44x]

I don’t know the finer details but it sounds like a standard margin call. A position blows up, you need to cover as you’re over margin limits and the broker notifies you that you need to deposit a certain amount or they will sell other holdings to cover.

Was there something more to it?

[deodorel → nemo44x]

Yes, his position was in fact hedged/covered by another position. In the end he lost nothing.