Any new rules to regulating shorts would be very welcome as a retail investor. As far as I’m concerned, these are the biggest problem in enforcing REG SHO and regulation of the shorting market is the T2 settlement period which obscures net positions for the average investor. And the other is the blurred line of market makers and hedgefunds. Hedgefunds can easily parade themselves as “bona fide”
Hello As a market investor in certain stocks which have been massively naked shorted by hedge funds, I feel we need total and complete transparency of all short positions. All short positions should be made public. All off-exchange dark pools should be banned except for real large block trades, which was the original intent. Naked shorting should be regulated and prohibited to a greater extent.
The market is not free. Shorts are a scam. Naked shorting is a scam. In the name of AMC… the company is a victim of shorting, and likely naked shorting with the recent information on millions of failure to deliver numbers DAILY! What is being done about this? How can we allow this in a free society? This is embarrassing to American markets. How can AMC trade its own float multiple times a week?
You should only be able to short positions you own. Dark pools should be off limits and to curb that, I believe DTCC 005 now requires, or will require, to mark/stamp each shorted stock as to prevent them from being naked shorted. We need to punish the market manipulators who are naked shorting shares they don't own (Naked shorting). Without oversight, this market manipulation will continue
To whom it may concern, I am an individual investor with no special expertise in financial markets or their regulation. However, I am a scientist who performs a lot of data analysis, statistics and machine learning for my profession, and therefore I believe I have more than enough expertise to analyze financial data that is available. In order for informed decisions to be made, whether in finance
On my journey to investing in the stock market and am finding out that groups of Hedge funds have been manipulating stocks for their own and client’s personal gain. Where shorting a stock can be useful to help companies provide liquidity and entice investors, shorting companies to bankruptcy is not. In fact to bankrupt a company in order to make naked shorts disappear (and hence any
All short positions, including naked short positions created as part of bona fide market making activities, should be created on a lit exchange and reported in their entirety. The term "bona fide market making activity" should be defined by the regulator very specifically. The purpose of creating a naked short position in market making is to give an IOU for that share, and then to
I support a far more rigorous disclosure regime when it comes to Short Sale Reporting. As a non-American investor I've been shocked by the harm blatant naked shorting does through rigged financial markets and hopeless under-regulation. If large scale changes won't happen my trust in the American financial markets will not return. In that case I'll never invest again and will spend
There is no need for FINRA to deny or block regular investors from investing in leveraged funds or complex products. I have been investing in them for years with no issues. The only thing FINRA should do is make illegal "naked" shorting of securities, commodities, or bonds. Naked shorting only serves the purpose of taking companies down or destroying commodities prices. Why this was
We are at a cross roads as an economy, thus as a country. Hedge funds and other similar large corporate entities have an unfair advantage in the market, and has acted to the detriment of the health of our economy as a whole. Loose rules related to the reporting of short interest and FTDs(fail to deliver) has created an environment that allows hedge funds and the like to take advantage of retail
