Hello, I am commenting in favor of the following regulation adjustments: - Short positions need to be reported daily by funds and market makers, and public notice needs to be reported daily on a public website for that purpose, for all holdings and companies in the market. - Audits need to happen by regulatory agencies to ensure shorts and FTDs are not being hidden in options. - Punishments need
FINRA is issuing this OATS Report to describe members' OATS Exchange Route Matching (ERM) obligations when routing to a national securities exchange.
Short interest and FTD anomalies need to be have the greatest level of transparency and strictest guidance available to the entire breadth of market participants. We should not a have a market system where by large powerful institutions can dominate trading with a flood of short sales for the purpose of extinguishing any particular company's stock and eventually forcing it in to bankruptcy.
When I buy and hold a stock, like AMC, the obvious hope and intent for me is that the price will go up and I will make a profit. So it doesn’t make sense to me that an entity that holds my shares for me, like Robinhood for example, can lend my shares to someone else then the borrower uses my shares to short and drive down the price. They benefit by achieving their goal of lowering the price, the
Dear FINRA: Firstly, I would like to thank you for giving the investor community an opportunity to be heard. For countless years, the investor community is deeply frustrated over the continuous manipulation of our financial system. I would like to address the following deep rooted issues regarding short selling within our financial system, and suggest possible solutions to mitigate risk in the
NASD is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to adopt, in anticipation of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (the “Nasdaq Exchange”) beginning to trade non-Nasdaq exchange-listed securities on an unlisted trading privileges (“UTP”) basis, new NASD Rule 5150 to require an NASD member that is registered as a market maker with the Nasdaq Exchange
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I should be able to make my own investment decisions in publicly traded assets based on my understanding of the risks involved in leveraged, Covered Call, inverse, and non K1 commodity funds without the burden of passing additional tests and the elitist nonsense of minimum asset amounts. My traditional "conservative" stock/bond mix portfolios have all dropped
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved proposals by each of the five registered national options exchanges and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the SROs) that provide member firms with more flexibility in how they store account statements and other information for
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The NASD® requests member comment on proposed amendments to Section 2 of Schedule E to the NASD By-Laws to amend the exception from the qualified independent underwriter requirement for offerings of securities with a bona fide
