Philip Giacomantonio Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19
There is so many practices they hinder or handicap the retail investors. I desperately ask for investigation and immediate remedy of the current unbalanced and corrupt investing atmosphere.
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There is so many practices they hinder or handicap the retail investors. I desperately ask for investigation and immediate remedy of the current unbalanced and corrupt investing atmosphere.
Digital data doesn't require days to locate. Short interest and FTD data is able to and should be reported daily. The varying T+ cycles have proven to work in the favor of Funds that make their money shorting companies out of existence, by allowing them to be wildly over-leveraged in their positions and also creating opportunity to take advantage of methods like naked short selling. If the data isn't reported, the market price isn't accurate. The rules are an illusion and the fines are effectively a small fee to pay to be able to abuse the market in these manners.
Further reporting should be required for short positions and failure to delivers
There must be transparency to eliminate illegal activity. These submitted changes would create a fair market rather than one as it's currently in place which gives institutions and brokers leverage over the retail investor and allows for underhanded tactics to manipulate the market.
We, the retail investor, need current and up to date, daily information. We, the retail investor, require fairness and equality in making good decisions concerning the investments we choose. With current and up to date daily information, lets us make better financial decisions.
Please watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUrjjzWL6_Q&t=300s
Short selling, as a tool was intended to hit back at corporations that were found to be cooking the books. Unfortunately, today it is a tool with nefarious intention with no regard for the impact it might have have on an otherwise good company, it's entire employee base and downstream jobs it involves itself in. As one who has managed portfolios and also invests privately it has never been more clear that banks and funds collaborate to impact fair value in their favor. If the investment field is ever going to be fair... If the US Stock market is ever going to be trusted...
Short positions should be reported daily along with short interest.
The stock market needs Total Transparency. The Hedge Funds and Market Makers are manipulating the market via the dark pool, by buying in the pools and selling on the open market, to artificially suppress the price of stocks that have been shorted. The act of Naked Short selling is rampant and frequently goes unenforced. Allgorhythmic Trading back and forth to artificially depress prices should be outlawed, as it is obviously market manipulation, should stop. Even when the act is enforced the fines are minuscule compared to the obscene profit reaped!
Yes more transparency. The more information the better.