These rules are essential for retail traders to have a chance at Making money in the market by themselves. Hidden short and synthetic short position set up retail for failure. It would be great to see FINRA adopt and enforce these rules
I've been investing in inverse and leveraged funds for the last 2 years. They're a valuable tool to gain exposure to other sides of positions, such as short ARKK (SARK) without having to worry about things such as options or short squeezes. Please reconsider any restrictions you may be considering.
The Manipulative Trading topic of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
Comments: I like to use these leveraged products for short duration trades in an efforts to enhance returns of my core portfolio. I also use leveraged inverse funds to hedge my long positions and I prefer it to shorting or buying puts.
Please do not change or restrict my ability to trade them.
I would like to see better enforcement of short sale rule (SSR) used by hedge funds. I would like to see more frequent public reporting of short positions and more detail in public reports of SSR movements.
1) real time short interest reporting 2) complete short interest reporting 3) same day transaction settlement 4) real time FTD reporting 5) fine amounts that actually deter behavior 6) real prison time to deter behavior
Comments: I regularly trade inverse funds. I don't find them "complex" at all. Inverse funds are short which ever index they cover and go up when that index goes down. As I am a very small trader it is the safest and easiest way to short the market. If you take this away from me I will have to short individual stocks which is much more risky due to factors involved
In a free market people are allowed to short the market. Inverse ETFs are a much-needed product for people who don't want to use margin and don't want to short and want to leave it to the professionals to short. Free markets go up and down and any investor or Trader should have the ability to buy and sell based on technical analysis. To disallow inverse and triple inverse ETFs
Comments: I think that L&I funds should still be readily available to retail customers without restrictions. I have done my own due diligence, as I think all investors should, in regards to understanding the products and if they are suitable for me. I understand throughly that leveraged products are not meant to be utilized for a long term investment due to the negative drag built
Dear sir or madam: Short interest and short position reporting should be mandatory and totally visible to all, no exceptions. This is a CRITICAL piece of data missing from our view. Knowing the amount of short interest a given ticker has would alter my investment strategy significantly. Why would a small investor such as myself want to put their money against major funds such as Melvin capital
