I like pulling certs. I pulled several million shares and Schwab complained and tried to talk me out of it. Took a few weeks but I got a cert. Obviously STock brokers make money playing monopoly with my shares. I not only like the idea of putting a little (slight) pressure on any NSS dudes, but more importantly, with price/earnings ratios of most stocks averaging more than 100, the market is way overheated. This combined with increasing unemployment, decreasing retail sales, increased defaults on commercial and residential real estate, and we are likely to see a lot of companies go under, real fast, particularly stock exchanges which have stuck their necks out too far with your and my shares. If they don't actually have my shares when they fold, they're gone in the etherspace. If you are depending on your CPRK for your retirement, you would do well to be sure it does not go down the drain with stock exchanges. I think the risk of stock exchanges going down is considerably more likely than our "risky" Pink, given production and cash flow and all.
