Firm Also Failed to Maintain Supervisory System, Report Customer Complaints
WASHINGTON—FINRA announced today that it has fined Webull Financial LLC $3 million for not exercising reasonable due diligence before it approved customers for options trading; not maintaining a supervisory system reasonably designed to identify and respond to customer complaints; and not reporting certain written
FIA PTG Principal Traders Group 2001 K Street NW, Suite 725, Washington, DC 20006 | Tel +1 202.466.5460 March 8, 2023 Jennifer Piorko Mitchell Office of the Corporate Secretary FINRA 1735 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-1506 Re: Regulatory Notice 15-13: Trading Activity Fee (TAF), May 5, 2015 Dear Ms. Mitchell: The FIA Principal Traders Group (“FIA PTG”) 1 appreciates the opportunity to comment
Please let us continue to utitlize inverse etf's, these are essential to protecting my retirement nest egg as we go through periods of volatility in the market. I use them to hedge my positions in stocks without having to sell any stocks and incur long term gains or excessive trading of those assets in ira accounts.
I am currently using the SQQQ and SPXU 3x leveraged inverse funds to protect my stock portfolio during this market downturn. The SPY is down 14.11% and the QQQ is down 23.64% from their highs. My stock portfolio is down only 12.18% from my high. The 3x leverage allowed me to start later from the highs and use less funds for portfolio protection. Otherwise I would have had to sell more of my
A transparent and accountable market should be the lowest bar. This seems like a minimal step forward, particularly on a higher frequency and timely reporting, expanded information on account level positions, threshold securities, and ownership of synthetic shares. Please do more than consider these enhancements. I had no idea that there was financing available to cover shorts - this seems
Hello FINRA I'm a simple and uneducated ape, I'm fairly new to the market. I have seen verified data that shows companies (such as Melvin Capital and Citadel) funding media outlets to reinforce their short positions on a nearly perfect cyclical basis, I have seen people on social media paid for directly by such companies, and even worse I have companies ravage through money that wasn
I'm afraid these changes do not go nearly far enough. While additional and more timely information is certainly appreciated, I believe what we need is for all short sales to be reported similar to the availability of Level II data. That is, every short sale should have to be recorded and immediately posted with the loan terms, where the shares were loaned from, and through which market it
Please leave it up to us individuals to decide which investments we choose. Having the option and ability to choose leveraged ETFs has been immensely helpful to me. For example, during this month of April while stocks / markets have generally been in a noticeable decline, I've been able to protect my portfolio investing in leveraged inverse ETFs that has resulted in my portfolio having
Buying these funds isn't any different from investing in high beta stocks, and I'd argue it's actually safer than doing so by focusing on a basket of stocks in a certain sector than only one. It's also safer than trading options, which is what people will be forced to do if they can't trade leveraged ETFs.
Hi there, thank you for reading my comment. I support all of these new rules. However, re: rule #1, I would like to see that in conjunction with rule #2, not as an alternative to it. I also believe all short interest data should be reported on a daily basis not just to FINRA but also to the public as this data is crucial to some trading strategies and I believe it is available to institutions but
