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Dear Madam or Sir, I support your proposal on the reporting of short sales. This hopefully makes the market a bit more transparent. Unfortunately, the market is predominantly run by hedge funds. My hope is in your hands. Kind regards from Germany Birger Christan
I would like to propose a fixed T+0 or T+1 settlement date for all shares. FTD's (Failure to deliver) are rampant in the current market structure and allows for adverse effects on price discovery. Enforce a T+0 or T+1 settlement for FTD's and this would saveguard price discovery and mop up shorting fraud without risking liquidity issues.
Rule 1. All short sale shall be reported to finra by end of each settlement day. Rule 2. Finra shall make public report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day or the trading week. Rule 3. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to finra by end of settlement day. Rule 4. Finra shall make public the outstanding unused loaned share by end of settlement day of a trading week. Rule 5. All threshold securities sho regulation shall be reported daily with full accounting of fail to deliver end by end of settlement day. Rule 6.
Enforce rules, larger penalties, end naked short selling, transparency or end/reduce dark pools, limit high frequency trading, limit ability to short sale-naked-over and over, transparency in short sales, regulation sho-strict adherence and compliance regarding threshold list
Dear FINRA, I saw you are looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short positions. Here are my thoughts: -Naked shorting is illegal and conditions need to be met by regulatory agencies to ensure it doesn't happen. - Short positions should need to be reported daily by funds and market makers, and public notice needs to be reported daily on a public website for that purpose, for all holdings and companies in the market. Transparency is key. - Audits need to happen by regulatory agencies to ensure shorts and FTDs are not being hidden in options.
With the technology today and the money that's being made in the markets by all parties, except for retail traders who get the shaft when it comes to getting "free" trades. Even by the sanctioning bodies that are supposed to over watch all of it's "members" and the standards upon which they are held, are not doing their jobs. Not REQUIRING that all members to report in an expediting manner on data which should be publicly available to all parties is giving everyone a chance in a more "fair" market place. Institutional investors should have no more advantage to the system than anyone else.
Full transparency is required moving forward. If long positions are submitted the shorts should be treated the same and disclosed. T+0 would be great. Naked shorts and synthetic shares shouldn’t be required in this market. Married Puts and calls shouldn’t be able to used full stop to synthetically cover any positions.
Rule 1. All short sale shall be reported to finra by end of each settlement day. Rule 2. Finra shall make public report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day or the trading week. Rule 3. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to finra by end of settlement day. Rule 4. Finra shall make public the outstanding unused loaned share by end of settlement day of a trading week. Rule 5. All threshold securities sho regulation shall be reported daily with full accounting of fail to deliver end by end of settlement day. Rule 6.
Must enforce the rules first and foremost. 2nd borrowing of shares once off each share. 3rd Some type of proof the short was covered or the ftd was paid. None of this go short then cover long? 4th if naked shorting is illegal have a system that keeps track of the shares not allowing a float to be bought and sold several times over. 5th enforcing rule it is illegal to loan out shares on cash accounts. 6th enforcing the rules of loaning out shares on platforms without permission then when told still doing it.
1. T+0 settlement 2. Market Makers cannot be hedge funds. 3. Stock in hand rule ie short seller must have found and received stock before it can be shorted. 4. Public list of every entity which short sells a stock. 5. Maintenance requirement to short a stock to be cash only with zero marginable securities used as collateral. 6. Fine for Naked Short Selling enhanced to 1000% of stock's value plus lifetime ban from all trading activities, to include consulting services offered. Also, all monies made secondary to short selling must be forfeited.