I'm a retail investor. From my perspective, the entire reason for the (increasingly public) debate over short-selling regulations stems from the loopholes in reporting that are being exploited to the detriment of investors at all levels and to the detriment of the integrity of American markets at large. In this context, I believe the language in this Notice does not go far enough to allay my
Reporting needs to be more than monthly, weekly at latest. It also needs to be changed so that it 100% accurately identifies short interest and delineates between real and synthetic borrowed shares for short interest. Fines should also be such that they accumulate to a point that a rule breaker will not be able to just choose to keep paying the fine and committing the crime.
Failure to delivers on short positions should be set in stone and enforced throughly and simply. For example, you take a short position out and there should be a time frame on when you have to return them and once that time frame is hit, THEY HAVE TO DELIVER THEM. no funny business. No borrowing more shares to cover previous ones.
Hedge funds used obfuscation and blatant disregard for the rules to extract capital from retail. This became blatantly obvious with the manipulation throughout the last year. I am asking for more frequent public reporting of short positions and more detail in public reports. Increased enforcement of the current rules against naked short selling is a given.
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I oppose restrictions on limitation or restrictions to buy stocks to stock holders.
There is risk investing in the stock market already and we don't need the regulators to impose any restriction on our abilities to buy and sell any stocks, especially those that we may already have positions established. New regulations for existing stocks, including current leveraged and inverse funds, expose investors to unnecessary risks beyond our initial decisions to buy or sell.
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Hi, I've many years experience in stock investment and I have large investment in stocks, Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies. I understand it's risk and reward! I purchase SQQQ and SPXU as hedge to my tech investments and other stocks. I also seek enhanced returns by trading SQQQ and SPXU. However, leveraged and inverse funds are small portion of my
It is necessary that there be confirmation when positions are closed. It is currently way too easy for holders of short positions to kick the can and hope the company that is the focus of the short goes bankrupt. You need to start supporting the action of jailing those that are responsible. Fines are nothing but a cost of doing business and everyone knows it. People need to be held accountable.
