Data transparency is the hallmark of reliability, responsibility, and accountability. As such, all information about short sale positions, short interest, etc. should be publicly and freely available in real time immediately. Failing that, as soon as possible - which, given the electronic nature of these transactions, ought to be virtually immediately. Anything less increases corruption,
Rule 606 of Regulation NMS requires broker-dealers to disclose information regarding the handling of their customers’ orders in NMS stocks and listed options. These disclosures are designed to help customers better understand how their firm routes and handles their orders, assess the quality of order handling services provided by their firm, and ascertain whether the firm is effectively managing potential conflicts of interest that may impact their firm’s routing decisions.
Eliminating the leveraged ETFs from the choices of investment vehicles is the wrong decision. If the leveraged ETFs are volatile, how about the individual securities, mutual funds and options. Every investment tool in the stock market involves some degree of volatility and risk, even crossing the street in daily life has some degree of risk. Are we going to eliminate options because they include
Eliminating the leveraged ETFs from the choices of investment vehicles is the wrong decision. If the leveraged ETFs are volatile, how about the individual securities, mutual funds, and options. Every investment tools in the stock market involve some degree of volatility and risk, even crossing the street in daily life has some degree of risk. Are we going to eliminate options because they include
During the history of US stock market, people with little to no money to invest have been able to invest in the stock market and lift themselves out of poverty. I do believe investors should be educated in plain English about their stock in Bitcoins. I believe that a certain amount of regulation is needed to prevent the problems that unregulated derivatives caused in the housing market. Today
Good Day,
I am writing to express the my frustration at hearing that regulators my limit investors ability to invest in leveraged stocks and inverse stocks.
Investors should be able to invest in the stocks they choose to for themselves and their family.
They are an important part of investment strategies and should not be limited to privileged higher net individuals.
As with most regulations
Comments: I've been using leveraged ETFs for many years and am well aware of the added risk. My experience is that the risk of the leveraged vehicle is not much different than investing in individual stocks. It is easy find examples of stocks that are far more volatile than the leveraged product. For example, a two year chart of ROKU with TECL would show that the leveraged ETF was a much
I buy leveraged and inversed funds as part of my investment strategy and would be very negatively impacted by any change. I buy these funds as a hedge so I can hold my regular stocks in a down market to held for long term gains. For example, I am holding AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, NVDA,SOXL AND OTHERS. I want to hold these stocks for long term gains. I can keep the stocks and hedge by buying SQQQ, the
FINRA announced today that it has fined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC $1.6 million for the firm’s repeated failures to timely close out failed inter-dealer municipal securities transactions and to take prompt steps to obtain physical possession or control of municipal security positions that are short more than 30 calendar days, and related supervisory failures.
SEC Approves New Requirements for Alternative Trading Systems
