TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
On January 20, 1986, the NASD issued Notice to Members 86-4, announcing the Securities and Exchange Commission's approval of new Article III, Section 41 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. The new rule requires all NASD members to maintain a record of their total "short" positions in NASDAQ securities in all customer and
(a) General
Except as set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Rule or otherwise set forth in this Rule Series, the compliance date for this Rule Series is the date of Commission approval.
(b) Clock Synchronization
(1) Each Industry Member shall comply with Rule 6820 with regard to Business Clocks that capture time in milliseconds commencing on or before March 15, 2017.
(2) Each Industry
I believe that complete short positions and short interests should be publicly reported on a hourly to daily basis for public knowledge. Without it, retail investors are at an unfair disadvantage.
Please make synthetic short interest reporting hourly or daily. Please make short interest reporting transparent. Current reporting is not fair to individual investors!
We want transparency in a free and open market. Why do shorts not have to report? We want short interest position reporting enhancements! Please
FINRA is about as effective as a mall cop, police but have no teeth. Fines companies millions for crimes that made them billions. 3 generations have been short sold down the river. We would not have as many poor folks or homeless if the hedge funds didn't short companies to BK. Dark Pool trading has allowed hedge funds to short well past being a market maker. One hedge fund donates 70
Short positions need to be clearly marked as short and need to be closed within 15 days of initial position. FTDs. should be closed within 15 days.
I would like to see accurate and up to date info on shorts, Possible naked shorts and failures to deliver. And also ways of enforcing fair market practices.
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to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy.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
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
