The once a month short reports a a dis advantage to a ll traders. They can short more that 100% and we should be able to find out what the short interest is at will.
As a retail investor, I firmly believe that the market NEEDS more transparency and regulation. If the FINRA is going to collect information on short interest accounts, arraigned financing agreements, and Failure or To Delivers, they should collect as much information as possible and retail investors should be able to use that information to make informed decisions. A. Publication of Short
FINRA 21-19 addresses many of the shortcomings of our opaque market. While I support the reporting enhancements, I would like to see further action taken by FINRA to bring transparency to short selling. Short selling, while providing liquidity to the market, also brings the challenge of unlimited risk. Unlimited risk (e.g. a short squeeze) drives market participants to engage in unethical and
1. Open institutional short positions should be disclosed after the end of every market close. 2. Shares in an institutional short position should be serialized in order to attempt to prevent rehypothication and to confirm the shares exist. 3. Failure to delivers should be disclosed within 1 day after the settlement date. 4. The penalty for not reporting information on open short positions or
If there was more transparency into short seller positions paired with the proposed enhanced reporting practices it could encourage a more fair market for all investors, not just those largest participants. When attempting to do research into short positions into some companies I had a long position in, the information was so sparse, and vague to say the least, you could not accurately assess the
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"Synthetic Short Positions: In addition, FINRA is considering requiring firms to reflect synthetic short positions in short interest reports." This should be implemented as a daily report with no T+ days.
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The amount of naked shorting and failure to delivers in the market currently is absolutely unacceptable. Please make a change to the rules we're short positions and make it short positions have to be reported daily.
We as individual investors should have the choice and option to decide which investments are best for us. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. Especially in 2022, diversity and inclusion is extremely important, allowing all people to learn and make decisions that are best for themselves, not regulators.
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