20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies By Suicide After Seeing A $730,000 Negative Balance
I hate to bring this sad news, but I thought that everyone could learn a thing or so, specially those young traders out there who are vulnerable. Its really really sad to hear this kind of news, specially a very young kid at 20 years who ended his life.
The note found on his computer by his parents on June 12, 2020, asked a simple question. “How was a 20 year old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars worth of leverage?” The tragic message was written by Alexander E. Kearns, a 20-year-old student at the University of Nebraska, home from college and living with his parents in Naperville, Illinois. Earlier that day, Kearns took his own life.
In fact, a screenshot from Kearns’ mobile phone reveals that while his account had a negative $730,165 cash balance displayed in red, it may not have represented uncollateralized indebtedness at all, but rather his temporary balance until the stocks underlying his assigned options actually settled into his account.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-year-old-robinhood-customer-commits-suicide-after-seeing-a-730000-negative-balance/#5421ac305928I cannot also manage that problem so maybe if that thing happens to me, I am also going to kill myself so it is better if you don't start trading until you learn how to trade in a right way and how to manage your money. If you feel you are losing, stop trading and continue tommorow with a great start. I hope that something like this will be no more happen. If there will be another case like this, maybe the users are going to scared on using crypto currency and that will be a big reason for mass adaptation to occur on a longer time.