Why is everyone making such an issue out of a few days to a week of being able to sell your shares. No one (in their right mind) is going to sell their shares at current prices.

If you're so close financially that you may be forced to sell to meet other obligations you shouldn't own the shares in the first place.

As the prices rise and you get to a range where you might consider selling move them back into your trading account. You can then sell them at your leisure.

In the meantime you are protected from broker or clearing house failure.

Is everyone out there completely ignorant of how bad the financial situation is in this country and the world in general right now. Virtually every government, state, county, and municipality is bankrupt if proper accounting was employed. I think Iceland, who told the "creditors and politicians" to go fly a kite, they wouldn't pay that debt that they had not personally incurred, is about the only solvent entity anywhere in the world and I'm not even certain they are solvent.

P.