Isn't naked shorting illegal? Isn't it the SEC and FINRA's job to investigate and enforce? Please do your job. There is a go fund me page soliciting funds to pay for an attorney to investigate GME and AMC naked shorting when taxpayer dollars are already being spent to fund the SEC. Do your job. Everyone is watching.
To pass this regulation and eliminate certain investment vehicles, such as leveraged vehicles or the ability to go short on certain vehicles, implies several onerous things. Such as attempted regulatory manipulation of the market in one direction and secondly an insult to the intelligence of certain investors.
Why should vehicles that go short be more risky than vehicles that go long ?
Such laws
Daily short reporting. None of this every 15 days. Also eliminate this T+2 reporting nonsense so they can naked short in the days between. No more illegal stuff. If we rob a bank or store WE GO TO JAIL OR PRISON. IF THEY ROB US ... They pay a $1000 fine and go back to work ... meanwhile they added millions in profit.
I use leveraged funds to give a little spark to my otherwise strictly dividend portfolio. Always less than 5% of portfolio value. I also use them for short periods to enhance returns on a sector that is in current demand. They are always used in small proportion and for short periods of time.
Been using them for years. I like them and believe I should have the choice to use them. Let the
Stop short sales and naked short sales, If a company holds the opposite position. If the company has a half a billion in puts and half a billion in calls, it's a SCAM! STOP THE LOOPHOLES THAT ALLOWS COMPANIES, LIKE CITADEL, TO ENDLESSLY LEND THE SAME SHARES AND SELL THE SAME SHARES WITHOUT DELIVERING THE MONEY! IT IS THEFT! RETROACTIVELY HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE!!
How about you just make this a simple thing... Instead of financial institutions SELF-REPORTING their short positions, why not actually have a regulatory body go directly into their books, so they can properly extrapolate the information. This way you can monitor things like married puts/calls that create synthetic shorts, and be on top of them on a daily basis.
I urge FINRA to put in place daily short percentage update requirements and reporting. I believe this will strengthen our marketplace and help our great American businesses fight manipulative overleveraged shorting. I also believe Failure to Delivers should get reported as often as possible and should be investigated quickly and effectively. Thanks for your time and consideration.
1) Short interest data should be published daily. 2) Loopholes for hiding short interest with deep ITM options need to be closed for accurate reporting. 3) Self-reporting of positions needs to be cross-ckecked by independent audits periodically. It is really important you upgrade the reporting and also enforcement of rules, otherwise millions will lose faith in the legitimacy of the market and
Restrictions need to be placed on shorts to prevent overleverage ASAP especially to the degree that AMC is right now. If any normal person to out a loan and over leverage it banks would be at our throats to receive their money. Why is it treating any different with short sellers. The act of bankrupting a company without full transparency of all positions should be illegal.
I'd like to see the market have more transparency of shorts. In today's day and age, there should be 8-15 days to see a company's short percentage. The market information should be available to all investors no matter their size. Also, I feel that the "dark pool" system should be abolished. It too can possibly create uncertainty in the market. Thank you.
