(a) Except as provided herein, a member that accepts and holds an order in an equity security from its own customer or a customer of another broker-dealer without immediately executing the order is prohibited from trading that security on the same side of the market for its own account at a price that would satisfy the customer order, unless it immediately thereafter executes the customer order
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Weighted Average And Special Pricing Formula Trades
Effective Date: July 17, 2000
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Executive Summary
On May 31, 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved changes to National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (
IMPORTANT MAIL VOTE
OFFICERS, PARTNERS AND PROPRIETORS
TO: All NASD Members
LAST VOTING DATE IS JUNE 21, 1986.
Members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD), are invited to vote on certain amendments to the NASD Rules of Fair Practice and By-Laws contained in Exhibits A and B to this notice. These amendments are described below. Prior to becoming effective, the
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify firms of the upcoming elections to fill vacancies on the FINRA Regional Committees, and the mailing of ballots to eligible firms.
As detailed below, the following seats are contested:
Midwest Region Committee, District 4 representative
Midwest Region Committee, District 8 representative
North Region Committee, District 9
Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) specialists effecting transactions in NYSE securities through ECNs, or Nasdaq securities through the UTP Plan, from terminals located on the floor of the BSE, are effecting transactions on the floor of the BSE for purposes of NASD Rules 1032(f) and 1060.<br/>
Order entry personnel are not required to register under Series 55 as equity traders based solely on the fact that they enter orders into routing systems, which send the orders to clearing firms for execution. Also, not all persons to whom equity traders report need to be Series 55 registered.<br/>
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assets from customer accounts.
Current rules/regulations that are in place to monitor/report short selling and positions associated with short selling are entirely inadequate. Rules in place that allow for many loop-holes including short exempt, married calls/puts and dark pool activity + high frequency trading leaves currently regulations looking like swiss-cheese. Abuse from market makers and hedgefunds that are paid in gold
Short selling has not gone beyond simply providing for market liquidity and has become a method to destroy shareholder value. New rules (or better enforcement) need to take place to prevent this from continuing. Start by forcing all brokers to default their clients' positions to "not lend." This will restrict the available shares. Additionally, mandate that all short positions
