It is my opinion that short sales and short interest should be reported at end of trading day and not delayed by 14 days.
It’s ok to short shares that you own. It’s never ok to naked short or create synthetic shares.
FINRA 21-19 is something that our "free and fair" markets desperately need. For too long, retail investors like myself have been kept in the dark. It has become more clear than ever that our markets are teetering on a sword's edge due to a lack of transparency and accountability. - Account-level Position Information: Alternatively, FINRA is considering requiring firms to report (
Every investor should have access to the following data(In real time whenever available) -Updates on short interest data -Settlement on transactions - Failure to deliver data -Synthetic short data (so called naked shorts) -13F filings for short positions Additionally the following practices should be either be made illegal or become significantly more regulated * Single side dark pool trading
Data transparency is a must of having reliability, responsibility, and accountability within in financial industry. Without the full faith and trust in a fair system, myself and other investors would see no reason to put our hard earned money at risk to the "Wall Street Boys Club". As such, all information about short sale positions, short interest, etc. must be publicly and freely
What are thinking about doing!!! Shorts are much more ILLEGAL than Inverse Funds! Shorts are WAY above and beyond the TOTAL number of shares a company has total in number!!!!!
Good day, There is brazen and blatant market manipulation being done by big investors to drive down prices of securities such as AMC and GME, including practices such as naked shorting, ladder attacks, the spreading of misinformation through media outlets, etc. As to the short interest, what is reported is not accurate, as much of what takes place is on "dark pools" and is made of of
Short selling has not gone beyond simply providing for market liquidity and has become a method to destroy shareholder value. New rules (or better enforcement) need to take place to prevent this from continuing. Start by forcing all brokers to default their clients' positions to "not lend." This will restrict the available shares. Additionally, mandate that all short positions
Concerned with naked shorting and market manipulation amongst current hedge funds. Specifically naked shorting and delayed order flows.
I Definitely like the idea of firms reports on there shorts reflecting their synthetic shorts as well and think that’s crucial to market transparency.
