SEC rules. Probably to have extra money on hand honestly. They said 'screw that guy, he can wait 3 days for his money, I got things I need to buy now'. Seriously that's probably about how it went.
Your essentially loaning your proceeds to unknown entities for 3 days. What they do with it is unknown, but the song 'hookers and blow' comes to mind. lol
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