While short positions is legal and should remain so, predatory shorting that harms American companies, it's consumers, and American investors should be abolished. Greater monitoring of the practice and regulatory enforcement to prevent it from occurring is desperately needed. "Dark Pool" trading in particular is should be illegal and have those that participate in it the subject of
Dark pools need to be eliminated and naked shorts are ILLEGAL but are still an ongoing practice among hedge funds. SSR needs to also be enforced much better. The hedge funds are able to do whatever they want and don't get punished for their actions. SEC, please step up and stop illegal practices and be more transparent in regards to stock market information.
Help us level the playing field. It’s the only way to make this fair.
Stop the price manipulation on AMC and GME. Put an end to naked shorting with more required reporting regulations, and increased oversight. Hedge funds and Brokers need steeper fines and tighter restrictions that will actually make them stop doing illegal activity, instead of being slapped on the wrist and still making millions. Shut it down. Transparency is key and the retail investors feel like
To whom it may concern, Short interest positions should be reported daily. Dark Pool trading should be banned. I can understand the argument for their initial creation, however I do not trust financial giants from misusing the dark pools for price suppression. Payment for order flow should be completely banned. Retail investors should be on an equal playing field as hedge funds and market makers
I believe it’s the utmost importance that the short report of any kind, should be an information declared daily. Only then we shall have a market more equal and attractive to retail and everyone else. I appreciate very much the opportunity to let our voices be heard. Thanks, Felipe Borges
As a retail investor I believe that the provably widespread practice of naked shorting dilutes the share pool of companies that I believe in which artificially lowers stock prices. It is a method that predatory short hedge funds use to drive stock prices down, rather than allowing the market to engage in true price discovery. This causes companies which might otherwise be beneficial to society to
t+14 is unacceptable for FTD's it needs to be reduced to t+2 along with daily short reporting. along with shares being trackable and prime brokerages not being allowed to give out short bets x10 the shares they have in their possession.
I want a more transparent market for retail investors. Live accurate data that isn't 2-30 days delayed and partially reported. It is a distinct disadvantage that retail has when it only gets part of the picture. I also would like to see more regulations and stiffer penalties on naked short selling. The fines that are handed out for FTDs and naked short selling are a drop in the bucket to
Reiterating what another commenter said: “ The proposed amendment to FINRA 4560 is a laughable attempt at improving naked short selling internal control measures, actual regulatory action, or really any kind of further obligation on the part of the involved broker-dealers. There have been hundreds if not thousands of regulatory "actions" taken by FINRA related to short sale, and
