FINRA Announces New Web-based System for the Collection of Short Interest Positions
SEC Approves Amendments to FINRA’s Short-Interest Reporting Rule
FINRA Collection of Short Interest Data for BATS Exchange-Listed Securities
FINRA Consolidates the Collection of Short Interest Data; Effective Date: May 15, 2008
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Short Interest Reporting
Intermarket Surveillance Group
Executive Summary
This Notice to Members advises member firms that, effective September 2007, they are required to increase the frequency of short interest reporting from monthly to twice a month.1 Attachment A outlines the revised Short
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NASD Rule 3360
Short Interest Reporting
Short Sales
Executive Summary
NASD is issuing this Notice to inform members of changes to the
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Short Interest Reporting Requirements
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Short Interest
Rule 3360
Executive Summary
On February 3, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
approved amendments to Rule 3360 relating to the short interest
reporting
INFORMATIONAL
Short Interest Reporting
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Legal & Compliance Operations
Rule 3360 Short Interest Reporting Short Sales
Executive Summary
On January 10, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order announcing the immediate effectiveness of amendments to NASD Rule 3360 (Rule 3360 or the Rule) that clarify that
Each FINRA Trade Reporting Facility (TRF) provides FINRA members with a mechanism for the reporting of transactions effected otherwise than on an exchange. While each FINRA TRF is affiliated with a registered national securities exchange, each FINRA TRF is a FINRA facility and is subject to FINRA's registration as a national securities association.
Trades by FINRA members in Nasdaq-listed
I understand that short selling is viewed as important to the health of the stock market; however, when it is used to maliciously attack retail investors, it should in no way be legal. The existence of naked short selling remains a recurrent problem for many stocks, AMC and GME being two of the most notorious. If there is even the possibility of naked shorting, shorting should immediately be
