Many accounts take a day to reflect the 1 for 2 reverse split. Your account value does not change. For example if you had 1000 shares at $3 before the split then after the split you would have 500 shares at $6. The value is still $3000. No one lost value on the reverse split. Please reference this link which explains it. http://finance.zacks.com/reverse-stock-split-good-bad-2298.html