I would like to see the following changes: Require that firms include synthetic short positions On the FINRA website- Make available short interest data for all equity securities (listed and unlisted). Short interest and short sale volume to be disclosed at a daily frequency Require firms to report short interest positions at the account level Require a report of daily allocations of fail-to-
I believe in requiring firms to reflect synthetic short positions in short interest reports. For example, enhanced short interest reporting could include synthetic short positions achieved through the sale of a call option and purchase of a put option (where the options have the same strike price and expiration month) or through other strategies. FINRA believes this information would assist FINRA
I should be able to be able to short stocks just like the professionals. They would not like to be restricted either! It is an unfair playing field when you have to play by different rules than other investors. It's called cheating! I should be able to not have restrictions on my IRA either and should be allowed to short stocks like other investors and now you want to take away the only
To Whom It May Concern, Regarding the Proprietary and Customer Account Categorization, I support specifying short interest held across proprietary accounts and customer accounts for each equity security as of the close of the reporting settlement data. As a logical extension, I recommend requiring short interest held in EACH proprietary account and customer account for each equity security, and
Comments on Day Trading Disclosure StatementPlease see comments with underline or strikethrough.Day-Trading Risk Disclosure StatementYou should consider the following points before engaging in a day-trading strategy. For purposes of this notice, a "day-trading strategy" means an overall trading strategy characterized by the aggressive and regular transmission by a customer of intra-day
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"Synthetic Short Positions: In addition, FINRA is considering requiring firms to reflect synthetic short positions in short interest reports. For example, enhanced short interest reporting could include synthetic short positions achieved through the sale of a call option and purchase of a put option (where the options have the same strike price and expiration month) or through other
I would support and welcome strong requirements for technology leveraged real time updates to short positions. Because of the predatory nature many entities have assumed, and because of the predatory way that these entities use shorts against a given stock, I ask for any entity shorting a given stock to be publicly identified and that their full short position be updated in real time though
Fail to deliver data should be reported more frequently preferably daily. Also short seller data should be far more transparent, require daily reporting of short positions, no longer allow covering shorts with options contracts, and the short sale reduction rule should be overhauled to not allow short selling at all once triggered.
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