<p>While stocks are hitting fresh all time highs, bringing joy and spreading the "wealth effect" across America, clients of the Fidelity brokerage are having a rather shitty day because due to a glitch, or perhaps a hack, countless accounts are currently showing a zero balance, or simply removing accounts altogether.</p>

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<p>While we assume this pesky "glitch" will be resolved promptly, we should point out that if the market were to ever again suffer a down day and should investors wish to sell some/all of their holdings, this would be a convenient way to quickly and efficiently prevent that from ever happening.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> Is there currently a problem with your website? When I log in I am not seeing any of my accounts.</p>
— kctacoparty (@kctacoparty) <a href="https://twitter.com/kctacoparty/status/1230144413554413570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">Ok <a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> why is my balance saying zero today? IT problems?</p>
— Finance after 50 💵🍔🏋️‍♂️ (@FINANCEAFTER50) <a href="https://twitter.com/FINANCEAFTER50/status/1230142799510691840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">Welp. Things aren't going well over <a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> this morning. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TechnicalProbs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TechnicalProbs</a> <a href="https://t.co/fCxKtH6eOB">pic.twitter.com/fCxKtH6eOB</a></p>
— Karen L. Alexander (@KarenLeeAlex) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarenLeeAlex/status/1230144351172464641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> Are you experiencing a widespread outage? I can't see any of my fidelity accounts in my view.. I notice other twitter users are experiencing the same.. and I'm 99th in the chat queue!</p>
— Sanjay Hiranandani (@snh) <a href="https://twitter.com/snh/status/1230145668846673922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> Your site seems to be having issues, all my accounts and positions are no longer showing up for some reason, they were fine about 20 mins ago, although I was having issues with being logged out when trying to open new positions.</p>
— Joe Rice (@JoeRiceOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeRiceOfficial/status/1230152958341451777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">I saw my <a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> account and almost had a heart attack. The balance was $0. I just learned there website is down.</p>
— Guy Spann (@GuySpann) <a href="https://twitter.com/GuySpann/status/1230155820115034113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@fidelity</a> is screwed up. Showing me zero balance right now. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fidelity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#fidelity</a></p>
— Uncle Sam (@VermontCheese) <a href="https://twitter.com/VermontCheese/status/1230145486578995200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">Umm <a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> why are all of my accounts showing zero? 🙁 Have y’all be hacked?</p>
— Baller Mom 🏀 (@Hey_MsGigi) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hey_MsGigi/status/1230144954959351808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> Portfolio, Balances, etc pages of site are only showing two of my accounts and I have over ten. Please fix.</p>
— Pete Nikolai (@PFNikolai) <a href="https://twitter.com/PFNikolai/status/1230144668320632832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/Fidelity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fidelity</a> is down</p>
— EmotionlessCapital (@emotionlessCap) <a href="https://twitter.com/emotionlessCap/status/1230147501430378496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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"Glitch" or just a test of how "quarantining" the market would work one day?
