Dude has been doing this shit for DECADES: https://www.bhlawfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1501576/2020/01/99-00981.pdf
That's the norm in any business. Unless they are holding a gun to your head or holding your family hostage, you just walk away if you don't want to sign the contract to open an account.
Matlock, that's not what it states in my agreement. I know you're really really smart that's why you are on elite trader with over 10,000 posts. Oh no, oh my gosh, I'm so scared. What am I going to do. Matlock just informed me I won't be able to open another stock account. Oh my God Matlock.
This could possibly be the biggest group of retards ever put together in a single setting. Seriously, I'm not Barry Lasner you idiot. What a bunch of weirdos! hahahah
And I'd wager that lasner did not declare his prior arbitration case when he opened the account. Dude, you "own" a Coldwell Banker office in Metuchen. You don't have any ownership in a SEC-regulated brokerage.
It's not an issue of not knowing our rights. We KNOW our rights and we know they are crap and are negligent. The issue is the legal cost and time. Even with Small Claims, you have to consult a lawyer, gather everything, write and send by registered mail a demand letter without prejudice, go to a court to file the case, and then wait, and then go to the court, present everything and hope you win or the other party doesn't show up. For all those legal costs and time, we would've made $$'s if we had just moved on. We are professional TRADERS here. Our job here is to trade and make money, not to go after brokers for whatever their crap is. We know they are crap, we just use their software to send orders for their cheap commissions. If we want impeccable service, we go for full-service brokers. You want to teach people how to sue, you are in the wrong forum buddy.