I support the proposed changes. In addition i believe that there are several levels of self-dealing, impropriety, negligence and perhaps outright fraud-by-omission, happening at the SEC itself, which routinely harms retail investors as a class. My suspicions were raised by commentary around 'meme stocks' and comments by various industry professionals in publicly available materials. I
As a retail investor I am very hesitant to invest anymore money into stocks when I'm seeing this blatant manipulation of the market by market makers and hedge funds. I feel like they're not going to act in good faith when doing so doesn't benefit them as much. We as investors need to see more than just fines imposed and some real solid action on combatting this behavior for a fair
I've not seen any regulation on Dark Pools. This needs to be addressed and acted upon as dark pools allow for hedge funds/shorts to manipulate market price by routing stock buys in them. My vote is to outlaw and remove dark pools entirely. I know it's supposed to be used for huge exchanges without affecting the market, but at this point, it's more and more being used for illegal
Shorting is a fundamental part of the free market, but surely naked shorting of any kind be it physical stock, bonds etc should carry such a severe penalty that hedge funds thinks twice before going down that path. Hedge funds should be playing by the same rules as anyone investing in the markets, it should be free and transparent for all participants. The SEC has turned a blind eye for to long
I don't know about this short sale rule. I live in Sweden and I always thought that the US is a country that treat's everyone equal. Since I bought stock on the US market the only thing I feel is that every time someone mentioned a rule I just take it whit a grain of salt because nothing happens whit the market. You can make thousand more rules but it doesn't matter because no one
As a Country, we've lost confidence in the free market of the United States of America. My suggestions would be: T-0 real time settlement FTD's forced to deliver per the regulations Enforcement of illegal naked shorts that have decimated retail's portfolios for decades. Increased scrutiny of dark pools (some of these stocks are being traded 60% in dark pools) Elimination of being
Subject: Investors ability to trade "complex products" - including leveraged and inverse funds (L&I Funds)
Dear Regulators,
I am Janakiraman Chandrasekaran, 59 years old and I like to voice my opinion regarding your proposal on limiting access to Leveraged and Inverse ETFs (complex products).
Educated Investor: I like to inform you that I am an educated investor in
I am currently a small investor, living off the income I earn actively investing. Leveraged and Inverse Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are an important part of my investing strategy and income.
It has not taken me much time at all to learn how to use Leveraged and Inverse ETFs as part of my investing strategy. Concepts like decay, the effects of leveraging and daily resetting seem as easy to grasp
I oppose restrictions on the public's ability to invest in complex products for numerous reasons.
1. The definition of a complex investment is vague, arbitrary, and subject to administrative change in the future. This can cause a new risk for investors who may hold these products now but may be restricted from them in the future, forcing them to sell the products.
2. Being a complex
I oppose the various impositions and restrictions on my ability to invest that are being proposed in Regulatory Notice #22-08.
(1) I am particularly concerned that the application of the term "complex" is not well-defined or specified in this notice and may grow to include anything that FINRA considers on its own volition as being too "complex" for whoever they
