I'd like to see the market have more transparency of shorts. In today's day and age, there should be 8-15 days to see a company's short percentage. The market information should be available to all investors no matter their size. Also, I feel that the "dark pool" system should be abolished. It too can possibly create uncertainty in the market. Thank you.
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.
Data transparency is the hallmark of reliability, responsibility, and accountability. As such, all information about short sale positions, short interest, etc. should be publicly and freely available in real time immediately. Failing that, as soon as possible - which, given the electronic nature of these transactions, ought to be virtually immediately. Anything less increases corruption,
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Executive Summary
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reproposing to adopt Rule 13h-l and Form 13H under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Originally published for comment in 1991, the proposed rule establishes a system for identifying large-trader accounts and transactions, and places certain
As all short interest affects market pricing, all transactions between market participants that may be used to mask or hide official short interest numbers should be reported fully and transparently. It is against the idea of a free market to withhold short interest data from all market participants, including retail investors, and to only provide information to professionals.
This is unwarranted, unjustified, and unnecessary. Investors should be able to make their own decisions about what they invest in, and when, and how. Fund family vendors provide all the information necessary about their product(s) to let any investor who TAKES RESPONSIBILITY for THEMSELVES for their actions to understand clearly what they are investing in, and the risks inherent in that
To whom it may concern at FINRA, I am not a very eloquent person, so please note that I have taken bits and pieces of comments and copy/pasted them. Just because I have not articulated these thoughts myself, does not mean that I am any less passionate about the proposed rule changes. Since beginning my journey as a retail investor and learning more about our financial systems I have lost complete
Summary
FINRA requests comment on a proposal to provide additional transparency into delayed Treasury spot trades in corporate debt securities—i.e., corporate bond trades where the dollar price of the trade is based on a spread to a benchmark U.S. Treasury security that was agreed upon at an earlier time on the same day. The proposed changes would provide for immediate transparency into the size
For 20 years, FINRA’s Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine, known as TRACE, has contributed to reduced trade execution costs, facilitated price formation, aided regulatory programs and protected investors, as detailed in a recent blog commemorating this milestone anniversary. As an economist, I’d argue TRACE’s impact extends. For me, some of the real impact is in the research it has enabled.
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