Failure to delivers on short positions should be set in stone and enforced throughly and simply. For example, you take a short position out and there should be a time frame on when you have to return them and once that time frame is hit, THEY HAVE TO DELIVER THEM. no funny business. No borrowing more shares to cover previous ones.
I use leveraged funds to give a little spark to my otherwise strictly dividend portfolio. Always less than 5% of portfolio value. I also use them for short periods to enhance returns on a sector that is in current demand. They are always used in small proportion and for short periods of time.
Been using them for years. I like them and believe I should have the choice to use them. Let the
I have a regular investment program that is long the market during part of every month and short during another part. It's been working fine for years. Being able to be in a short mutual fund or ETF does not "pick on" any particular stock. It just is a way to hedge other investments in case the market goes down. It is a more conservative way to invest that just
Having traded futures, metals, South African gold mining stocks, and a long-time investor in coins and bullion. I know of the risks of buying leveraged and inverse funds. Please do not limit or complicate my ability to make these purchases as I wish. Right now i am short the stock market with DOG and short intrest rates with TBF; Also long with oil holding USO. My money - my decisions!!!
I request that ALL shorting must be reported daily, and that ALL dark pool trading must be reported daily. Also all dark pool trading MUST be bought and sold within the dark pool, or all LIT trading is bought and sold in the LIT market. Not trading all the buy orders into the dark pool and sells into the LIT market. Honestly the dark pool should not even exist. Shorting needs to be redone as well
It is necessary that there be confirmation when positions are closed. It is currently way too easy for holders of short positions to kick the can and hope the company that is the focus of the short goes bankrupt. You need to start supporting the action of jailing those that are responsible. Fines are nothing but a cost of doing business and everyone knows it. People need to be held accountable.
How about you just make this a simple thing... Instead of financial institutions SELF-REPORTING their short positions, why not actually have a regulatory body go directly into their books, so they can properly extrapolate the information. This way you can monitor things like married puts/calls that create synthetic shorts, and be on top of them on a daily basis.
I urge FINRA to put in place daily short percentage update requirements and reporting. I believe this will strengthen our marketplace and help our great American businesses fight manipulative overleveraged shorting. I also believe Failure to Delivers should get reported as often as possible and should be investigated quickly and effectively. Thanks for your time and consideration.
1) Short interest data should be published daily. 2) Loopholes for hiding short interest with deep ITM options need to be closed for accurate reporting. 3) Self-reporting of positions needs to be cross-ckecked by independent audits periodically. It is really important you upgrade the reporting and also enforcement of rules, otherwise millions will lose faith in the legitimacy of the market and
Restrictions need to be placed on shorts to prevent overleverage ASAP especially to the degree that AMC is right now. If any normal person to out a loan and over leverage it banks would be at our throats to receive their money. Why is it treating any different with short sellers. The act of bankrupting a company without full transparency of all positions should be illegal.
