In observance of Presidents’ Day, FINRA’s Market Transparency Reporting Systems will be closed on Monday, February 21, 2022. Affected applications include:
Alternative Display Facility (ADF)
Over-the-Counter Reporting Facility (ORF)
Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE)
FINRA/Exchange Trade Reporting Facilities (TRFs)
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On December 10, 1997, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments to National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®) rules governing market maker withdrawals and
In observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day, FINRA’s Market Transparency Reporting Systems will follow the schedule below:
Monday, December 26, 2022 Closed
Monday, January 2, 2023 &
There needs to be transparency in the market. Daily reporting of shorts. FTD’s need to be taken care of immediately. If you can short billions of dollars daily, you should be able to cover those shorts daily. Also there needs to be serious and real consequences like jail time, not a fine for these things. Oh and darkpools shouldn’t be legal
1/ Synthetic short positions should be included in short interest reports. 2/ REGSHO- information of allocations of FTD's should definately be updated. daily report of FTD's should be mandatory.3/Publication of short interest for Exchange listed Equity securities to include both OTC & Exchange should also be implemented. 4/ Rule 4560-Loan obligations regarding short position
Retirement plans like a 401(k) are long-term investments. But that doesn’t mean you should set them up and forget about them until you retire. Schedule an annual 401(k) “checkup” to make sure your plan still meets your needs.
The Treasury Aggregate Statistics provide trading volume in U.S. Treasury securities reported to TRACE for the prior week. The reports have been published since March 2020. On January 3, 2023, FINRA will enhance the reports as follows:
The weekly data reports will be replaced with daily and monthly reports. The last weekly report will be published on January 4, 2023 for the week
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective
I fully support all increases in what must be reported with regards to short positions, and the frequency in reporting. If regulators are truly worried about the gamification of the market then close the loopholes and increase transparency particularly around ‘naked’ shorts. Shorts are just tools but dangerous tools that are currently far too easy to abuse with malice intent.
Here are some examples on how the system could be improved: 1. Reduce the reporting period to weekly (or preferably daily) from biweekly. 2. Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts. 3. Reduce the holding period for reported days from 4 days to 2 or fewer. 4. Document and release the identities of funds that have open short positions and
