FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective
Short selling is illegal. Whether large market makers and subsidiaries are in litigation or not the regulatory bodies have a duty to enforce appropriate corrections for an inherently manipulated market. Short interest position reporting should be instant IF even allowed which it shouldn’t be. All the regulatory bodies keep trying to distract the public by asking questions and posting on social
Retail trader here I believe FINRA 21-19 is long over due the integrity of the United States market depends on it and here's why. The policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they leave significant specific gaps that could compromise the entirety of 21-19's purpose. It is important for the restoration of both the
Although I do believe 21-19 will be beneficial towards the progression of building a free and fair market structure, I do not have faith in FINRA's ability to self regulate the parties of Wall Street. By just acknowledging these problems, it does not solve them. Action must be taken. For years, these criminal enterprises have operated in tandem with the entities that regulate them, allowing
This ability by hedge funds and market makers to indiscriminately and malignantly sell short in multiple ways to hide short interest hurts the market for retail. I’m sure if the entire retail sector of the market understood the various ways short interest is hidden and how their long investments were used against them to reduce the value of their investments, they would never invest in the market
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective
Please close the dark pools. That and naked shorting are unfair to retail investors and the companies that are going out of business.
Entities which are found to be breaking the law need to be punished for doing so. Failing to respond to the actions of malicious actors leads to instability in the system, an imbalance of power when there should not be one, and a loss of trust in the viability of the system itself. The punishments must be sufficient to discourage future attempts and breaking the law. If breaking the law and
Regarding TSO- It is irresponsible to allow trading over and above the TSO. This amounts to trading synthetic shares that do not exist and allows market makers to game the system. Not having accurate and timely TSO information and control in a market where brokers have the ability to perform thousands of trades per second is unacceptable and amounts to a failure in duty. On market makers who act
I would like to begin by thanking you for taking our comments. I have a few general comments before I attempt to address any of the points raised in your "Background and Discussion" and "Request for Comments" sections. To summarize my position: how is it possible that in an era of rapid trading in which computers execute thousands (or more) trades per second on any given
