November 20, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Retail trader digs $106K hole in short position gone bad - and begs for help on GoFundMe

A lesson for all those trading on margin / with leverage or holding short positions... Joe Campbell, a retail trader with $37,000 and change in his E*Trade online trading account, woke up this morning owing E*Trade more than $106,000. The problem? Well it turns out that Joe kept a short position open on a down-on-its-luck…

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