The short selling as a business action to "bet" against what is considered a failing business is understandable. It's when a company uses various tricks in the market to create more shorts than should actually exist, IE naked short selling. Various people that are not apart of the regulatory system have proven such naked shorts exist and yet the system set in place does nothing to
In regards to regulatory notice 21-19 regarding short positions... In my opinion, the current US financial system is highly fraudulent, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit by complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehanna being allowed to happen with impunity. The SEC and
I don’t know a ton about finance or the stock market. I know less about options and derivatives (I did watch a PBS program about Brooksley Born once) and that is all I really knew on the matter. But I’m learning more every day and the more I learn the more I’m convinced that there is perhaps something rotten in the DTCC, SEC and FINRA… to name a few. It seems financial regulators refuse to do
There is no reason all data from the stock market including short data isn’t transmitted in real time. This isn’t the 1920’s and also “family office” is a sham. It was created in the early 20th century and the rules governing them have never been updated. They should report like everyone else or be used as shells for market makers to hide short positions. Options should never be allowed to
The OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) is the service provided by FINRA for the reporting of trades in OTC Equity Securities executed other than on or through an exchange and for trades in Restricted Equity Securities effected under Securities Act Rule 144A and dissemination of last sale reports.For those OTC Equity Securities and Restricted Equity Securities that are not eligible for clearance and
For far too long the stock market has been tilted/manipulated in favor of Wall Street. The issue is naked short selling. Despite being made illegal after the 2008–2009 financial crisis, naked shorting continues to happen because of loopholes in rules and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems. More often than you think great companies such as Clover Health. Clover Health was
How about proactively tracking and eliminating naked shorting practices? Naked shorting is illegal but it's certainly not stopping hedge funds from doing it. The benefits of bankrupting a company are obvious and known. Give us a level playing field and be the Robinhood we need. We had enough with the oppression!
Hi, Thank you for this opportunity. I am a retail investor. The lax reporting structure allows "naked short selling" to occur. Eliminate T+2 reporting. Besides reporting, please make the perpetrators of Naked Short Selling forfeit all the profits and serve actual jail time and ban forever from trading.
On March 16, 2023, FINRA published responses to frequently asked questions concerning the MMTLP corporate action and trading halt (March 16, 2023, MMTLP FAQ). In that corporate action, the issuer decided that MMTLP shares would be cancelled and investors in those shares would receive a distribution of shares of Next Bridge Hydrocarbons, Inc. (Next Bridge). FINRA has continued to receive questions regarding the circumstances surrounding these events. In particular, some have questioned the level of short selling in MMTLP and suggested that there was a substantial amount of “counterfeit shares.” Although it is not clear what is meant by the term “counterfeit shares,” it has been used in social media when discussing “naked” short selling in a security and failures-to-deliver (FTDs). Some investors have expressed concern that, even though their brokerage account statements include shares of Next Bridge in their account, these shares may not have actually been delivered to their broker-dealer.
I have no problem with shorting a stock. I do believe that is healthy for the market. I’d like to see naked short selling have much more severe penalties. Penalties that would make institutions think twice about doing it. Naked short selling is killing retail and leaving a huge black eye on our beautiful capitalist economy. It’s no secret that it’s done, it’s done on such a massive scale that I
