If a security is sold, FINRA should have a record of it whether it is generated from. I see your folks are focusing on synthetic, fake shares generated to "provide liquidity" via options but security-based swaps, mismarked longs and any other financial instrument institutions may use to sell a share they do not have NEEDS to be reported to FINRA. When you folks have this information you
FINRA 21-19 is needed to restore the Retail Investor's trust in the market. An equivalence of information is needed to ensure all parties in the market are on equal footing. Transparency of data, in particular, the limited short interest reporting policy, needs to be improved. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and
I would like to see accurate daily reporting of short interest of stocks including how many synthetic shares have been produced to short a stock. I would like all methods of "can kicking" FTDs through options chains eliminated. Short hedge funds should only be allowed to short a stock by actually borrowing real shares of stock for a specified period of time and must return those shares
Please note my comments as below: Rule 1. All short sale shall be reported to finra by end of each settlement day. Rule 2. Finra shall make public report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day or the trading week. Rule 3. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to finra by end of settlement day. Rule 4. Finra shall make public the outstanding unused loaned share by end of
To FINRA, It has come to my attention through my broker that this notice may lead to a restricting of many types of investments that I have available to me. While some of the recommended requirements such as a cooling-off period and an increase in information that a client must see could benefit retail investors. Other requirements such as a net worth requirement are troubling, to say the least.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to: (1) amend Rule 2231 (Customer Account Statements) to (a) add new supplementary materials pertaining to compliance with Rule 4311 (Carrying Agreements), the transmission of customer account statements to other persons or entities
As an educated & well-researched "retail" investor, I find this legislation incredibly insulting. The condescending essence of the idea that I am not capable of understanding the risks of leveraged and inverse ETFs is disgusting. Such ETFs have allowed me to outperform the major indexes through the bear market we are currently going through, and without access to them retail
FINRA is publishing its quarterly OTC Equities High Price Dissemination List for the fourth quarter of 2021. This updated list of OTC equity securities eligible for trade report dissemination for trades of fewer than 100 shares is effective as of April 1, 2022. To view changes, visit the Daily List: Security Attribute Changes page, select the “Unit of Trades” filter and enter March 31, 2022 as
In observance of Labor Day, FINRA’s Market Transparency Reporting Systems will be closed on Monday, September 6, 2021. Affected applications include:
Alternative Display Facility (ADF)
OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB)
Over-the-Counter Reporting Facility (ORF)
Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE)
FINRA/Exchange Trade Reporting Facilities (TRFs)
As stated in the data feed
SEC Approves Amendments Relating to Web-based Delivery of the Regulatory Element of Continuing Education
