The pinehills group is all a scam, I put in 250$ into my so called account and a guy ( BERNARD URSA) senior trader there would phone everyday to tell me about the market and stuff for about 2 weeks then all of a sudden was asked for 10,000 dollar investment!! I laughed and said all I own is the 250 I deposited and hung up. About a week later I went online to the so called website logged in and started trading on there system. So I'm a newbie to all this just to let you know! In about 15mins I had my account up to 1500 bucks I was starting to think It might not be a scam but then all of a sudden the shares I purchased with my own funds was close and I lost my stocks! Then at that time e my phone rang and it was Bernard so I asked him why and he told me I was running on margin but that wasn't right I never borrowed any funds from the brokerage or anyone there I made all transactions with my own money. And if this is a real brokerage they better get ready to get sued because they pretty much stole my money and left me hanging and at the same time screwed me over by putting my 250 into a .margin account which shouldn't have been done right from the beginning, so if this brokerage is real there's a lawsuit coming and if it's a scam they worked pretty hard for the 250 bucks they got from me!!!! So in my opinion this place is a straight up scam because I can't see a brokerage firm hiring someone that stupid!!!!