We would love to see short sale institutional/hedge fund data be reported just as the regulations require long positions 13F filings in order to file and finalize a purchase. Currently we have an issue where naked shorts have been created in several stocks across the market, but could be better regulated by requiring such filing so be submitted before large scale institutional short positions are
Stop allowing naked shorting that’s NOT REPORTED and stop allowing a short position to be pushed out further using more options and avoiding fail to delivers ALL WHILE NOT BEING REPORTED. No one should be able able to short a stock over 100% of the float and yet when it happens everyone looks the other way. So why should they stop? Slapping on the wrist with a small multi million dollar fine
Daily short reporting. Also Eliiminate this T+2 reporting. It allows naked short in the days between. Fines are equivalent to 100% of profits taken, if they cannot prove the profits then 100% of the revenue of the trade. Pantry fines are essentially green lights for million of dollars of profit for there illegal activities
Enforce the rules. Stop cutting deals on fines because CEO's used to work there. Make the fines hurt, instead of just being a cost of business. Stop naked shorting, regulate the dark pool, margin calls on short sellers with of lots of failures to deliver like Citadel.
The current practice of short interest reporting is flawed, as Market Makers are legally allowed to naked short for the sake of liquidity, and have means to "clear" FTD's without needing to buy the underlying stock. The enhancements proposed by FINRA would greatly enhance the visibility of short interest in the market, and allow investors to choose stocks wisely while being able to
Here are some examples on how the system could be improved: 1. Reduce the reporting period to weekly (or preferably daily) from biweekly. 2. Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts. 3. Reduce the holding period for reported days from 4 days to 2 or fewer. 4. Document and release the identities of funds that have open short positions and
Please check out citadel and all the shorts seller. Believe they're doing naked shorts and manipulation the market right now. SEC really need to step in and do their job, all we want is a fair market. This is freedom country, Things should be equally. Thank you!.
All short sales - synthetic, actual, borrowed, naked shorts which we need to acknowledge exist, etc. ALL should all be more fully disclosed to level the playing field for the non-institutional buyer. Hedge funds manipulate the market terribly with the existing rules and it needs to change.
The additional transparency and short interest reporting rules that FINRA is proposing are a welcome start. All short interest reporting should be made available to the public for 2 reasons. First, this information directly impacts all investors. Second, it is clear that there is no way possible for FINRA, SEC or any other regulator to police the markets. By making all reported short interest
The ways in which hedgefunds, family offices, and institutions are able to hide their naked short positions, whereby effecting an inaccurate short interest %, means that this isn't a level playing field. Force them to disclose ALL positions so that I, a retail investor, may choose to invest my money in a responsible way.
