Short selling, when done ethically for the right reasons, provides an important market balance. However, it is obvious given events of the last several months that some entities are engaged in naked short selling and market manipulation. Because of the current lack of oversight, lack of detailed reporting, and the other obvious problems those entities are causing massive chaos. This kind of
Thank you for your time. Currently as it stands, there is too little information in true short positions. With a market makers ability to create synthetic shares for “liquidity”, at some point the true positions need to be accounted for. If a bank, a market maker, and or other parties can hide positions through layered securities like CDOs or swaps, there is no benefit to the market, only the
(a) For purposes of applying any provision of the Rule 7600A Series that reflects a charge assessed, or credit provided, by the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility, a member may request that the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility aggregate its activity with the activity of its affiliates.
(1) A member requesting aggregation of affiliate activity shall be required to certify to the FINRA/
I am an investor who trades with New York Stock Exchange shares. In order for markets to truly be free and fair, there needs to be a level playing field for all entities involved. This is agnostic of the risks involved. Deviating from that impacts trust as it can be interpreted that retail investors have different rules from other investor entities. I do not support this rule as it's
Three times leveraged funds have in detail the risks involved with investing in them. Investors should be able to make their own decisions on what they put their money in without the guidance or approval of any government entity. Quite frankly, it completely oversteps any authority given to a government entity via the constitution and should ultimately not even be considered. do not regulate
You need to put a stop to the market manipulation, specifically on AMC. The last two days there has been more inflow than outflow and yet the price has dropped. 60% of all transactions happen on the dark pools. This is unfair to retail investors. Plus all the additional limitations we have and it seems that no governing entities have our best interest in mind. Seems they are always looking out
(a) A covered member that engages in distribution or solicitation activities with a government entity on behalf of any investment adviser that provides or is seeking to provide investment advisory services to such government entity shall maintain books and records that pertain to Rule 2030, including a list or other record of:
(1) The names, titles and business and residence addresses of
Hello. I am a supporter of transparency within the stock market. I have found that there are certain holes in the current regulations that make it possible to conceal important and actionable information from the public. These include: The lack of requirements for disclosure of an entity's short positions The lack of daily (or instant if possible) updates as to the current short interest of
FINRA is issuing this OATS Report to clarify a firm’s OATS reporting obligations when receiving an instruction to reduce the shares quantity of an order. FINRA understands that a customer’s wish to reduce the shares quantity of an order may be communicated to firms in one of two ways as explained in further detail below. Firms should report to OATS in accordance with the customer’s instruction.
SEC Approves New FINRA Rule 5122 Relating to Private Placements of Securities Issued by a Member Firm or a Control Entity
