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IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS
FROM ROBBINS SECURITIES, INC.

Margin Disclosure

This disclosure is being provided to you in order to provide you with some basic facts about purchasing securities on margin, and to alert you to the risks involved with trading securities in a Margin Account. Before trading stocks in a Margin Account, you should carefully review the section entitled “Margin Accounts” in the Customer Agreement provided to you. Please call Robbins Securities Inc. if you have any questions or concerns with your Margin Account.

When you purchase securities, you may pay for the securities in full or you may borrow part of the purchase price from Clearing Broker. If you choose to borrow funds from Clearing Broker, Introducing Broker will open a Margin Account for you with Clearing Broker. The securities purchased are the Clearing Broker's collateral supporting your loan, and, as a result, Clearing Broker can take action, such as issue a margin call and/or sell securities in your Account(s), in order to maintain the required equity in your Account(s).

It is important that you fully understand the risks involved in trading securities on margin. These risks include the following:

You can lose more funds than you deposit in the Margin Account. A decline in the value of securities that are purchased on margin may require you to provide additional funds to Clearing Broker to avoid the forced sale of those securities or other securities in your Account(s).

Clearing Broker can force the sale of securities in your Account(s ). If the equity in your Account(s) falls below the maintenance margin requirements under the law, or Clearing Broker's higher “house” requirements, Clearing Broker can sell the securities in your Account(s) to cover the margin deficiency. You also will be responsible for any shortfall in your Account(s) after such a sale.

Introducing Broker or Clearing Broker can sell your securities without contacting you. Some investors mistakenly believe that a firm must contact them for a margin call to be valid, and that a firm cannot liquidate securities in their Account(s) to meet the call unless the firm has contacted them first. This is not the case. Most firms will attempt to notify their customers of margin calls, but they are not required to do so. However, even if a firm has contacted a customer and provided a specific date by which the customer can meet a margin call, the firm can still take necessary steps to protect its financial interest, including immediately selling the securities without notice to the customer.

You are not entitled to choose which security in your Margin Account is liquidated or sold to meet a margin call . Because the securities are collateral for the Margin Loan, Introducing Broker or Clearing Broker has the right to decide which security to sell in order to protect its interests.

Clearing Broker can increase its “house” maintenance margin requirements at any time and is not required to provide you with advance notice. These changes in Clearing Broker's policy often take effect immediately and may result in the issuance of a maintenance margin call. Your failure to satisfy the call may cause Clearing Broker to liquidate or sell securities in your Account(s).

You are not entitled to an extension of time on a margin call . While an extension of time to meet margin requirements may be available to customers under certain conditions, a customer does not have a right to the extension.

Day-trading Disclosure

You should consider the following points before engaging in a day-trading strategy. For purposes of this notice, a “day-trading strategy” means an overall trading strategy characterized by the regular transmission by a customer of intra-day orders to effect both purchase and sale transactions in the same security or securities.

  Day trading can be extremely risky. Customers should be prepared to lose all of the funds that they use for day trading. They should not fund their day trading activities with retirement savings, student loans, second mortgages, emergency funds, funds set aside for purposes such as education or home ownership, or funds required for current income.

  Customers must be cautious of claims of large profits from day trading. Customers need to be wary of advertisements or other statements that emphasize the potential for large profits in day trading. Day trading can also lead to large and immediate financial losses.

  Day trading requires knowledge of securities markets. Day trading requires in-depth knowledge of the securities markets and trading techniques and strategies. In attempting to profit through day trading, an investor must compete with professional, licensed traders employed by securities firms. An investor should have appropriate experience before engaging in day trading.

  Day trading requires knowledge of a firm's operations. An investor should be familiar with securities firm's business practices, including the operation of the firm's order execution systems, procedures, and should confirm that a firm has adequate systems capacity to permit customers to engage in day trading activities.

  Day trading may result in large commissions. Day trading may require an investor to trade his or her account aggressively, and pay commissions on each trade. The total daily commissions that they pay on trades may add to losses or significantly reduce earnings.

  Day trading on margin or short selling may result in losses beyond the initial investment. When customers day trade with funds borrowed from the firm or someone else, they can lose more than the funds originally placed at risk. A decline in the value of the securities that are purchased may require additional funds be paid to the firm to avoid the forced sale of those securities or other securities in an investor's account. Short selling as part of a day trading strategy also may lead to extraordinary losses, because stock may have to be purchased at a very high price in order to cover a short position.

  Potential Registration Requirements. Persons providing investment advise for others or managing securities accounts for others may need to register as either an “Investment Advisor” under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 or as a “Broker” or “Dealer” under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such activities may also trigger state registration requirements.

Order Routing and Execution Disclosure

Robbins Securities Inc. wants to advise you of two specific risks associatedwith online trading activities generally:

  Fast Markets. A fast market is a high-volume trading session marked by extreme price fluctuations and order imbalances resulting from numerous investors entering buy or sell orders for the same security simultaneously. Because of these imbalances, wide price variances in short periods of time are common. On any given day, fast markets can affect a particular security, groups of securities or the market as a whole. Fast markets can be caused by material news announcements, market developments and even trading halts taking place in less volatile securities. The ability to execute orders in fast market conditions may be severely limited, and order execution may be delayed significantly. Furthermore, market orders entered in fast market conditions may be executed at prices that are significantly different from the prices quoted at the time the orders were entered.

  Use of Automated Systems. Robbins Securities Inc. utilizes a variety of automated order-entry and order-routing systems and technologies. These systems and technologies greatly enhance our ability to transmit your orders promptly, to compare prices across markets and to minimize the likelihood of errors. However, these systems and technologies also are subject to periodic disruption, failure or interruption. While we strive to utilize systems and technologies that are reliable and to make alternative systems or technologies available to you in the event of such an occurrence, you should be aware that your ability to promptly execute your orders could be adversely affected if such disruption, failure or interruption were to occur.

Extended Hours Trading Risk Disclosure

  Risk of Lower Liquidity. Liquidity refers to the ability of market participants to buy and sell securities. Generally, the more orders that are available in a market, the greater the liquidity. Liquidity is important because with greater liquidity it is easier for investors to buy or sell securities, and as a result, investors are more likely to pay or receive a competitive price for securities purchased or sold. There may be lower liquidity in extended hours trading as compared to regular market hours. As a result, your order may only be partially executed, or not at all.

  Risk of Higher Volatility. Volatility refers to the changes in price that securities undergo when trading. Generally, the higher the volatility of a security, the greater its price swings. There may be greater volatility in extended hours trading than in regular market hours. As a result, your order may only be partially executed, or not at all, or you may receive an inferior price in extended hours trading than you would during regular market hours.

  Risk of Changing Prices. The prices of securities traded in extended hours trading may not reflect the prices of either at the end of regular market hours, or upon the opening the next morning. As a result, you may receive an inferior price in extended hours trading than you would during regular market hours.

  Risk of Unlinked Markets. Depending on the extended hours trading system or the time of the day, the prices displayed on a particular extended hours trading system may not reflect the prices in other concurrently operating extended hours trading systems dealing in the same securities. Accordingly, you may receive an inferior price in one extended hours trading system than you would in another extended hours trading system.

  Risk of News Announcements. Normally, issuers make news announcements that may affect the price of their securities after regular market hours. Similarly, important financial information is frequently announced outside of regular market hours. In extended hours trading, these announcements may occur during trading, and if combined with lower liquidity and higher volatility, may cause an exaggerated and unsustainable effect on the price of the security.

  Risk of Wider Spreads. The spread refers to the difference in price between what you can buy a security for and what you can sell it for. Lower liquidity and higher volatility in extended hours trading may result in wider than normal spreads for a particular security.

Payment for Order Flow Disclosure

  On occasion, market centers, including broker-dealers, may offer compensation or other remuneration to a broker-dealer for the routing of its customers' orders to that market center for execution. This practice is generally referred to as “Payment for Order Flow.”

•  While customers of Robbins Securities Inc. generally make their own routing decisions and route their own orders, our executing brokers do receive liquidity provider rebates on some orders that add liquidity to certain market centers. The source and nature of such compensation received will be furnished upon written request.

Untitled Document Trading securities and options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. To gain a better understanding of the special risks associated with options trading, please read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. All accounts are accepted at the sole discretion of Robbins Securities, Inc. (member FINRA, www.finra.org). All securities for direct-access accounts are offered by Robbins Securities, Inc. and routed to Terra Nova Trading, L.L.C. for execution and clearing. Investors cannot directly access the markets or execute any type of trade, but rather can place orders through Robbins' online order-entry platforms (Tradient Plus or RealTick®) for execution. System access and trade execution may be delayed or interrupted by market volatility, order size, lack of liquidity, technological issues, or other factors. Pre- and post-market trading is subject to additional risks, such as limited liquidity and increased volatility.

Trade-related and software-related inquiries should be directed to Robbins Securities Inc. at 1-800-453-4444 or 1-773-714-9000 or to info@robbinstrading.com. Robbins Securities, Inc. and Terra Nova Trading L.L.C. are members of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which protects securities customers of its members up to $500,000 (including $100,000 for claims for cash). Explanatory brochure available upon request or at www.sipc.org. Robbins Securities, Inc. is not registered in all states; please call 1-800-453-444 to determine if RSI is registered in your state.

Robbins Securities Inc. also maintains a secondary clearing agreement with LaSalle St. Securities, LLC (member NASD, SIPC), a correspondent broker/dealer of National Financial Corp. Certain accounts accepted by Robbins Securities may be carried by NFC. Securities in these accounts are offered by Robbins Securities Inc. and routed to LaSalle St. Securities for execution.

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