PLEASE...Do not punish educated investors by enacting the severe regulations which you are proposing in regards to inverse and leveraged ETFs. I have used these very successfully for many years. They compose an integral part of my investment strategy primarily as a volatility nuetralizer and as a hedge against downside risk. To date, I've successfully avoided punishing 2022 loses-
Just stop with the nanny state already. Enforce the rules you already have and obtain convictions for the fraud and malevolence which are everywhere in our financial markets. If you cannot prevent the looting at the ARK funds, or the huge batch of highly questionable IPO's from 1H 2022, what business do you have regulating leveraged instruments. There was huge risk to investing in
Aloha, The fact that short sale reporting is self reported is incomprehensible. The current standard for short sale reporting has allowed and incentivized certain institutions to conduct illegal activity with short and distort schemes. With the technology we have today the standard for short interest and short sale reporting must be updated. Short interest position and short sale reporting need
Brokerage accounts allow investors to buy and sell numerous types of investments. When opening a brokerage account, investors have two main options: a cash account or a margin account. The difference between them is how and when you pay for your investments.As the name suggests, when you buy securities with a cash account, you must do so using cash, paying for the purchase in full. If you want to
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FINRA Rule 4111 (Restricted Firm Obligations) became effective on January 1, 2022. This Notice announces that the first “Evaluation Date” for Rule 4111 will be June 1, 2022.
Questions concerning this Notice should be directed to:
Kosha Dalal, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Office of General Counsel (OGC), at (202) 728-6903 or by email; or
Michael Garawski,
1 This report is not intended to express any legal position and does not create any new regulatory requirements or suggest any change in any existing regulatory obligations, nor does it provide relief from any existing regulatory obligations. This report summarizes key findings from FINRA’s outreach and research on the use of quantum computing in the financial
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The 1988-89 NASD broker-dealer and agent registration renewal cycle will begin in early November. This program allows for simplification of the renewal process through the payment of one invoice amount that
It is ludicrous to expect any self-reporting method of counting short positions to be anywhere near reliable. Organisations engaged in industrial scale naked shorting will obviously not tell the truth about their positions, especially when the fines for mis-reporting are a tiny fraction of the profits they can make. The only trustworthy method of counting shorts would be to count the shares in
I would like to comment on two particular components of 21-19. -"It is possible that the public dissemination of more granular data could discourage short-selling activity, which is an important mechanism for both efficient pricing and for liquidity provision. We also request comment on potential negative outcomes of making this information publicly available on an aggregated basis." -
Since Monday, December 5, 2022, FINRA is experiencing an issue with ORF clearing messages for transactions that are cancelled, corrected, broken or reversed and thus causing duplicate settlement messages and incorrect settlement amounts for those transactions.
In the interim, until FINRA resolves the issue, FINRA requests ORF clients work with their clearing firms to send the necessary
