I believe that investors such as myself should continue to have access to L&I ETFs, funds, and including derivatives such as options on such products. They are useful for hedging in the short term and in general i believe that investors should have this choice. The reason is they are far more efficient than trying to take short positions or selling shares in positions where we
I am not a major investor but have some funds that I actively manage which I am hoping to use for my kids college fund. I need the flexibility to decide if I want to be long, short, leveraged or not on my positions. I am not a high new worth individual or professional investor but I understand the risks I take in going short on a position or having a leveraged position. Largely these positions
Hello, As a full-time investment portfolio manager for the last 15 years, I feel like this entire filing is yet another moot point. No matter which valid point I bring up, the Commission will only find it invalid, however, here goes nothing: I respectfully advise the Commission to re-think the overall goal in respect to their job function. You're asking for comment on something very little
America is a country who always advocated equal rights. I should get right to invest my money the way I want. Stocks are also risky when big companies like BABA, NetFlix ets drop more than 70% from their all time high. People can loose the money when they trade Options of stocks. I regulators are really concerned about the risk of retail traders then the should regulate - - the market fall/rise
Dark Pools are called that because they remove the transparency of the trade. This is an open market so there shouldn’t market activity that’s suddenly invisible to the rest of market traders. There should be full transparency about shares being bought and sold at market prices. For shares that are shorted and subsequently misreported the financial fines should be proportionate to the real value
This is an insane idea to add more regulation to Leverage ETFs. From a practical perspective, think of how much higher risk there is involved investing in a single stock like Tesla, Netflix, Nvidia vs. a leveraged ETF like SSO or UPRO that is allocated over hundreds of stocks. Would you ever consider limiting how much of a single stock an individual can own? Of course not, yet that is a far
Short sale, short interest, fails to deliver, hedge funds using the same collateral for different margin accounts and loans, and all dark pools information should be made available to the public as daily reports as LIVE FEEDS. Data Science algorithms can reveal how these market manipulators are stealing money from retail investors. Data and information should be available as LIVE FEEDS just like
In a fair and free market there should be absolute transparency. The number of shares shorted should be available in real time during trading hours. No more dark pool trading. Every single share sold should be reported and able to be located at any time. Market manipulation is rampant and hurting retail investors. Get rid of algo trading back and forth. Naked shorting and FTDs should carry
The rules SEC, DTCC,NSCC and all regulators institutions had been promoting should be activated and complied. The naked short sales is illegal so that is a criminal act. As criminal act must be punished with severe penalties not just with a few dollars. If a common person that works in an financial institution commit a crime by changing few numbers to hide they were doing something wrong that
To whom it may concern: Please take the time to investigate the amount of shorting taking place during the merger of (MMAT) Meta materials and (TRCH) Torchlight energy resources. Please investigate the specific dates of June 22nd, 2021 to July 12th, 2021. The amount of shorting and sell walls observed are highly suspect to hedge fund manipulations. Thousands of people have lost a lot of money
