Banning these trades would make no sense. What is the difference between this and micro stocks? Or putting all of your portfolio into a weekly option. Any stock can go to zero. Everything has risk and reward. And the timing behind this when they are in a downdraw like thr entire market is ludicrous. If you ban this you need to ban all stock trading.
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(a) Definitions
(1) Member Private Offering
A "member private offering" means a private placement of unregistered securities issued by a member or a control entity.
(2) Control Entity
A "control entity" means any entity that controls or is under common control with a member, or that is controlled by a member or its associated persons.
(3) Control
The term "control
Daily short reporting. Also Eliiminate this T+2 reporting. It allows naked short in the days between. Fines are equivalent to 100% of profits taken, if they cannot prove the profits then 100% of the revenue of the trade. Pantry fines are essentially green lights for million of dollars of profit for there illegal activities
It is in the public's best interest that hedge funds are NOT allowed to short, or delay communicating their shorts, or hiding them in dark pools or married puts to prevent covering. At the end of the day, it's the American people that end up paying for their dirty deeds, either by losing their companies/jobs/pensions. This is and is legal robbery!
Track each share purchased with a universal number or identifier. Shorting a share must have a high collateral requirement which should be verified. Every order should be delivered T+2 or fails mean huge penalty. Every short position should be updated with FINRA daily.
Enforce the rules. Stop cutting deals on fines because CEO's used to work there. Make the fines hurt, instead of just being a cost of business. Stop naked shorting, regulate the dark pool, margin calls on short sellers with of lots of failures to deliver like Citadel.
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to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy.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 Requests Comment on a Proposal to Publish OTC Equity Volume Executed Outside Alternative Trading Systems
Learn how to submit a Form BR amendment related to the Residential Supervisory Location (RSL) rule. In this short video (2:02 minutes), FINRA demonstrates a scenario for an existing branch that was previously filed with FINRA, the NYSE, and a state, but is now an RSL for FINRA and the NYSE, but not with the state.
