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Andrew Hickey Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

As a Tax professional and mathematician who has spent year working with the SEC - I am shocked. What I have witnessed, and uncovered in the past 7 months goes against our laws. The market as of 7/9 is fixed. Its a scam. You have done nothing because you are in on the scam. We have zero ability to enforce laws that give tiny fines. They get to borrow shares and ruin companies, spread lies all over the internet. Stock pumps are worse than ever. Even decent have gone bad - Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool are Hedge funds toys.

Julian Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

Dear FINRA, I will keep it short: Dark Pools that are only available to large hedgefunds and banks, and which make use of different pricing and availability, are causing the entire stock market to turn against the individual retail investor. These Dark Pools can be used to load up on shares of a specific company and then unload those bought shares onto the common stock market, causing the price of the stock to plummet. Therefore, this practice must either be upheld entirely, or the activity within these Dark Pools needs to be made readily publicly available.

Russell Cohen Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

With all due respect "reporting" is a small part of the shorting problem. While I support more immediate reporting requirements, the issue is naked shorting, mislabeling of shorts (as longs), and other shorting malfeasance being used by market makers (i.e. Citadel and Virtu) to manipulate market prices and destroy market integrity. Fines are also the biggest joke. Citadel has been fined for illegal shorting practices and FTDs in the past and the criminal activity continues to this day.