The rules around Failure to delivers (on short selling) for larger organizations (namely citadel securities and others), is giving them a way out to continue to drag down companies and squeeze out retail investors. The market does not function the way it should with the hand tipped to the market maker. The market maker is also the one funding the media outlets, may own assets in 'educational
In April 2022, I received a message from Vanguard stating that I would no longer be able to invest in shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) in my Roth IRA. This email was very concerning and surprising since my Roth IRA has massively outperformed the market since adding GBTC a number of years ago.
More recently, I became aware of FINRA's proposed regulations to prevent or restrict
Digital data doesn't require days to locate. Short interest and FTD data is able to and should be reported daily. The varying T+ cycles have proven to work in the favor of Funds that make their money shorting companies out of existence, by allowing them to be wildly over-leveraged in their positions and also creating opportunity to take advantage of methods like naked short selling. If the
Finra should absolutely adopt all of the above changes. Any regulation that can be added for transparency in a free market should be added. All of this information should be reported daily and available to everyone to install confidence in a free market system. Above and beyond this, accountability for failure to comply should come with harsher penalties then small fines that can be incurred as a
FINRA should immediately move to require daily short interest reports. More and better information will allow for better price discovery, which is the whole point of markets. FINRA should also consider making rules that punish those who commit FTDs (Failure to Deliver). Market Makers should have their naked short selling exemptions removed or severely limited. Finally, FINRA should move to
Much more transparency is needed in regards to the number of current short sale positions including percentage that have been closed on a daily basis. For far too long retail investors have been dealt a bad hand going against hedge funds who have access to all the detail we do not. Please make the markets what they are supposed to be which is free and fair. Please enforce and intensify the rules
Would you please stop acting like any of your new rules are going to do anything. New penalties, including jail time, need to be implemented. As of now you are being insulting and ignorant. The slap on the wrists continue=the crimes still continue. You are asking the very people breaking the laws to report to you that they are breaking the law, instead they file false report after false report,
What makes are American economy and stock market great is the ability to choose how we invest our time, talent, and of course money. For many the idea of growing assets through investments is a beautiful mechanism and the reason we wake up ready for work every morning. I love the financial industry and have worked in it for many years. When working with clients, I always try to follow the rules
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Executive Summary
In Notice to Members 94-14, the NASD provided guidance on compliance with Article HI, Section 26 of the Rules of Fair Practice, which requires members to disclose in the fund prospectus any compensation received in the sale of mutual fund securities. This Notice clarifies that the guidance
I write to you in strong opposition to the proposed rule changes to which this public comment refers. I understand and applaud FINRA's desire to protect consumers - however I must insist you find a different way to do it. Simply restricting my access as an individual investor to a broad range of investments doesn't serve to protect me - it serves to drive my investing into
