I have traded stocks for over 35 years and one of the most important rights we have as investors is the ability to make our own decisions on what specific investment vehicles we choose to buy and sell. Regulators should not limit this ability for individuals and should instead focus on finding those individuals or corporations abusing the system. Anyone that is investing should do their own due
I like having the ability to invest in leveraged funds. I do not want this option taken away, or limited by some gate-keeper that gets to decide what I do with my money.
These are calculated risks I take and provides me choices for high growth.
I understand that we're trying to protect uninformed people, but you can't solve this by showing people pages of text before they trade
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I have some concern regarding the FINRA regulatory Notice #22-08. Imposing such regulation on public traded securities is not only harmful but unprecedented. I think most of the retail market can agree that it is an investors right to freely access the entirety of the public securities markets
without arbitrary restrictions is a basic entitlement. Especially with the current state of the
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted seven rules ("Rules") under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requiring broker/dealers engaging in certain recommended
Summary
FINRA is requesting comment on potential enhancements to its short sale reporting program. FINRA is considering: (1) modifications to its short interest reporting requirements (Rule 4560); (2) a new rule to require that participants of a registered clearing agency report to FINRA information on allocations to correspondent firms of fail-to-deliver positions; and (3) other
INFORMATIONALNominees for NASD Board of GovernorsSUGGESTED ROUTINGKEY TOPICSExecutive RepresentativesSenior ManagementNASD Board of GovernorsExecutive SummaryThe Annual Meeting of NASD members will be held on January 4, 2005.The formal notice of the meeting, including the precise date, time, and location of the Annual Meeting, will be mailed on or about November 29, 2004.The individuals nominated
Please explain to us why 50-70% of all retail transactions are going through the dark pools for AMC and GME every single day. As new investors we would like to understand how the blatant price manipulation, and lack of price discovery is considered legal by FINRA and other the other regulatory bodies. From what I have read this was not what the intended use of dark pools was for. I believe if
Srongly believe the proposed regulations are: Bad for Investors. If the proposal is adopted, some investors who could benefit from the enhanced return and portfolio protection potential of leveraged and inverse funds could be prevented from buying them by an overly burdensome qualification process. Brokerage firms could even stop offering these funds altogether due to the difficulty of
Notice of FINRA District Committee Elections and Ballots
It is unfortunate that the system must be an "US vs THEM" system, especially when they don't have to play by the same rules that we, the little guy, the 99%, the "dumb money", the "retail investor, has to follow. Things I would like to see changed: -- There needs to be more transparency. We need to be able to see the shorts. We need to see the FTDs. Short positions
