Full transparency is required moving forward. If long positions are submitted the shorts should be treated the same and disclosed. T+0 would be great. Naked shorts and synthetic shares shouldn’t be required in this market. Married Puts and calls shouldn’t be able to used full stop to synthetically cover any positions.
As much short related info as possible. The playing field is not level. Some people use shorting maliciously and without more info it’s not only unfair but illegal. Fines are just pennies to them. They willfully break the law make tons and pay the fines from the a small percentage of their profits.
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to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy.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
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I do not think that it is the job of the regulators to restrict my ability to invest in leveraged or inverse funds. The regulators or government should not burden me with restrictive tests or limit me from participating in investments that the more privileged enjoy. It is not the job of the regulators or government to tell me how to invest in a free market. By being able to participate freely in
FINRA is touching on synthetics when short positions are achieved through the sale of a call option and purchase of a put option. Agreed with this but what can you all do on the synthetics via naked shorts because we know that's happening in a huge way? I like the short interest position reporting but you all need to see who and how teeth can be put into this. The reality is organizations
There is so much public data showing short positions that exceed the outstanding shares of multiple companies. Short positions should be reported at least weekly. This includes borrowed shares that are sold short, and put options. Firms that fail to deliver should be fined much more than they currently are. If there are 1,000,000 outstanding shares, but call 20,000 open options for a ticker,
I've read many of the comments and overall, I echo the same sentiment. The one thing I haven't read about is the dark pools. When I first heard of it I honestly thought it was fake. It sounded too nefarious to be real. Turns out dark pools are very real and need to be properly monitored if not banned all together. They seem to be a sort of free for all for fraudulent trading. Using AMC
I think these rules need to apply the short sale reporting. The current system is rigged and Hedge Fund is taking advantage of it greatly. Rule 1. All short sale shall be reported to finra by end of each settlement day. Rule 2. Finra shall make public report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day or the trading week. Rule 3. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to finra by end
