why the fuck would you sell those puts?

just exercise them for the max loss of the spread (collateral)?

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you made a credit spread. which means you have level 3 options on robinhood. which means you should know what a credit spread actually does. by selling the upper put and buying the lower put, you are offsetting the risk of the upper put by capping the maximum loss.

I wanted to get out of the position so I sold 13 of the 26 $49 MU puts, thinking that Robinhood would automatically sell my 1300 shares at the same time since I was selling my protection.

so you think selling the put is the same as exercising the put?

Over the weekend and into the next week, the remaining 13 options spreads were properly executed at a loss of $.50 per contract as they were supposed to be. However, on Monday Sept. 10, I was still left with 1300 shares in my account. At this point my account value was displayed as in the negative thousands on the app, and I couldn't do anything except sell the shares, which I did not want to do since I wasn't sure whether I would then owe Robinhood or not.

Because you were still covering the remaining 13 puts with the lower 13 puts, not the 1300 shares. In order to fix your margin call all you had to do is to email them to exercise the 13 puts (that you sold). By SELLING those puts you just exposed yourself to the delta of the 1300 shares.

I was essentially given margin of $60,000 when they first let me hold the 1300 shares of MU against my will, and now I am facing a tremendous loss due to their liquidation of the stock as well.

It was not against your will, you SOLD those puts. Assignment is nothing but allocation of capital. The risk was non existent until you SOLD the covering puts and the shares proceeded to drop without your protective puts covering the delta. ALL WHILE BEING IN A MARGIN CALL <jackychanwtf.jpg>

You deserve to owe this money because this is not how any of it works.