You may be right, and I was wondering the same thing, but I have gotten very good, informative info on these boards, far better than I ever got from the brokers, so it may be an honest question. I know a number of stocks I own are not tradeable at some brokers because they do not want to take the risk or pay the fees needed to be able to let customers trade those stocks. There has been some wholesale BS stuff going on in the background with a lot of pink stocks, that has nothing to do with fraud, just has to do with policy changes, operating costs, and new regs, and some small players (Brokers and Public pink stocks) not being able to afford, or unwilling to pay the price to play the higher level games.