FINRA 21-19 is a regulatory change we must incorporate and enforce in our markets. It is clear to me as a retail investor that the integrity of the US market has been strained, and personally I have lost almost all faith in it. This sentiment stems from the regulatory and enforcement failure in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that there is a systematic flaw in the United States market that if continued, will lead to disaster. A large part of this issue is the outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant specific
The integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. The policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 speak of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave specific gaps that could
It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of collapse, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant
Of particular interest is the section on Synthetic Short Positions. It seems that approved participants can use synthetics to improve market liquidity, but it also creates a problem of diluting the stock when the shorts fail to deliver. Would position reporting also help to track FTD's better and implement some regulation to have those failures sufficiently resolved before more synthetics
What are thinking about doing!!! Shorts are much more ILLEGAL than Inverse Funds! Shorts are WAY above and beyond the TOTAL number of shares a company has total in number!!!!!
It is my opinion that short sales and short interest should be reported at end of trading day and not delayed by 14 days.
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The Securities Industry/regulatory Council on Continuing Education (Council) includes 13 members representing a cross-section of securities firms and six self-regulatory organizations (SrOs).1
I am Mary L. Schapiro, President of NASD Regulation, Inc. NASD Regulation, Inc. and our parent, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®), would like to thank the Subcommittee for this opportunity to testify on the securities day-trading industry
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