No need to worry anyone. If the brokers go belly up and their bank can’t eat the loss, our government will bail the banks out. I don’t know a lot about the stock market but things could get spicy from the sounds of the CAT system going up. Light may get shown on the high risk investments huge hedge funds have been involved in and could trigger margin calls. Could be a storm for short squeezes that trigger more margin calls. Suicide weekend sounds plausible for a scenario like that.