Hello, I have no affiliations with professional investing, I just started getting into it last year at the height of the pandemic. With that said, there is an obvious disregard for being truthful about short selling due to recent events and am happy you re looking to retail investors to get their take. Either a daily or weekly report that is NOT self reported would be best. Self reporting seems
Regarding Robinhood: Users setup a cash account/non margin -> Robinhood then reports it as a margin account on all account statements. This is for *all* Robinhood accounts regardless of age. Per Robinhood pg. 17 of their TOS: “If I have a margin account, Robinhood is permitted to borrow a dividend paying stock in the normal course of business and, as a result, in such situations instead of
I understand the value of short selling. I understand it is a mechanism to root out unsavory characters that may be using subversive tactics to artificially prop up a stock/ security, however I do not understand why, in 2021 we as retail investors do not have access to the same information at the same time as institutional investors? how is that a free market? again its 2021 and we have internet
No individual or entity should be able to create naked shares to the tune of 200% of the float. Also THE T-35 for fail to deliver Needs to be reduced. To 2 days. Like all trades do. FIX THE RIGGED SYSTEM.
THE HEDGE FUNDS ACCOUNTABLIY REGARDING REPORTING FTD'S AND NAKED STOCKS IN SHORT POSITIONS.
Short selling has not gone beyond simply providing for market liquidity and has become a method to destroy shareholder value. New rules (or better enforcement) need to take place to prevent this from continuing. Start by forcing all brokers to default their clients' positions to "not lend." This will restrict the available shares. Additionally, mandate that all short positions
Please please please get rid of dark pool trading. They are being taken adavantage of and not being used for what they were meant to be used for
Thanks to the meme stocks community. I have learned so much about the stock market. The Senate Financial Committee investigation into naked short selling found that hedge funds, brokers, and banks were creating 1 billion phantom shares everyday. They recommended an easy method to track all shorted shares. Yet, nothing happened after 13 years, and hedge funds continue to get a slap on the wrist
What implementation period would be appropriate to provide members with sufficient time to make the systems changes necessary to comply with this requirement? Change needs to happen as soon as possible, immediately to restore faith in the markets. To make these crooked markets somewhat fair to retail investors. FINRA is considering whether daily or weekly short interest position reporting would
