We must have daily reporting of short positions. We must see strict regulation of naked shorting and massive fines for abuse. We must see strict regulation of dark pools. We must see daily reporting of FTDs. I have zero faith in our financial system after witnessing the blatant manipulation perpetrated by certain hedge funds and market makers all while retail investors are blamed.
Naked shorting, synthetic share creation, and dark pool order flows for payment need to stop. The algorithms are out of control and have caused our financial systems to be nothing more than programmed manipulation by hedge funds which do not have the interest of the retail trader at heart. Shorts need to report daily and FTDs need to be fully resolved by day 13th - not just the minimum payments
We need more transparency in the short interest data, with technology today we should be able to see up to the minute not T+2 . Failure to Delivers should also have more up to minute reporting so the retail investor can make the best financial decisions based on current data not there best guess off data that drips in slowly while hedge funds have the current data to manipulate the market.
I am fully aware of the risks and dangers of leveraged funds. I value the freedom to chose the public investments that I deem correct. I use these funds sparingly to mitigate risk or to correct an obvious to me, imbalance. I am strongly opposed to government regulation of free participation in these investment vehicles which have a way of teaching harsh lessons to the foolish. And hedged great
To restrict small investors from trading is a crime in itself. As a disabled veteran, I would be greatly shamed to see these actions go through and see millions of people in my salary scale be unable to invest in Proshares products. Please do not do this, Let Americans trade at their own discretion. I (and my fellow investors) are more than capable of understanding how leveraged/inverse funds
Leveraged and inverse funds are crucial to everyday retail market participants for investment strategies, and provide a means to keep up with shifts in the marketplace. Their availability finally evens the playing-field between professional entities or computer algorithms, and the general investment public, and to restrict individuals from availing of them would be contrary to the public good. I
Dear FINRA,
Please do not remove my right to purchase leveraged ETFs. The general public should not be required to have special privileges to have access to these financial instruments. Although these are complex trading instruments, they pose no more risk than many other securities that already available to retail investors.
Regulations should not be made to 2X funds, especially those that are
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) a proposed rule change to extend the current pilot program related to FINRA Rule 11892 (Clearly Erroneous Transactions in Exchange-Listed Securities) (“Clearly Erroneous Transaction Pilot” or “Pilot”) until October 20, 2021.
I think retail is extremely desirous of seeing more frequent reporting and as much of that made publicly available as possible. At least of a weekly or bi-weekly basis. I believe the currently attempted short squeeze is bring to light that lack of transparency is being used to commit fraud and establish predatory roles against companies. The watering of stock has been an issue for nearly a