How much time does one have to close out their risky investment in a financial crisis when their broker defaults? Also are short positions protected when your positions get transfered?

Broker liquidation - how much time does someone have to save their cash or close out their risky investments and buy instead gold mining or agriculture stock?

For how long can you trade when your broker defaults on a margin call (let‘s say RH would have defaulted in January back then)… how would that affected the traders who were still invested in GME (and ofc they would like to close out)?

Also how safe are future contract and options on futures in big turbulence? Can you actually hedge somehow? You buy for example long gold future with longer date and a shorter term gold future just to achieve a zero sum game without terminating the trade bc of date differences? (I only would use options on futures just to hedge, bc I don‘t know what happens to a future I have to buy back)… put/call options are protected, am right?

Also how fast do emergency transfers happen?

Submitted August 21, 2021 at 09:44AM by xHeavyRain https://ift.tt/3zc9pKg