Please continue to let the small retail investors trying to build their retirement funds when the markets begin to fall, continue to trade inverse and multi-leveraged funds. IRA accounts are not allowed to short stocks and can't get margin for shorting so when markets go down so fast and stops are not always in place, we become "bag holders" in many good company stocks but because
In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The # of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC stock (for example) on the dark pool and then flooding the
Consolidation of short interest data publication, centralized on the FINRA website should be made public. Require firms to segregate short interest held in proprietary accounts vs that held in customer accounts. Report to FINRA account-level short interest (not for publication). Report synthetic short positions in both options and security based swaps. Report loan obligations from arranged
To FINRA: In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The # of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC stock (for example) on the dark pool and then
In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The number of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC stock (for example) on the dark pool and then flooding the
There needs to be away for people who are unable to sell stocks short to short the market during bear conditions Removing the use of inverse and leveraged funds further disadvantages individual investors and would continue to demonstrate the regulatory agencies' support of big market players
Shares need to have a traceable ID number, and shares that are shorted need to report that ID. I don't know how naked shorts get created by i do know that a stock like AMC shouldn't be shorting multi-millions of shares per day for months and months but never change SI% more than a few percent. There was one day this week there were literally 50 million shorts sold, 10% of the entire
1. Illegal naked shorting needs to stop . 2. Should have mandatory, correct short interest reported daily . FTDS should be covered immediately when they are owed they shouldn’t become FTDS. Market manipulation needs to be stopped by hedge funds . An institution shouldnt be able to short any stock if they are a market maker . Conflict of interest . No more payment for order flow ! No more dark
The sale of a call option and purchase of a put option with the same expiration date and strike price provides equivalent exposure to the price of a stock as a short sale. Despite this equivalence, this synthetic position does not currently create a short position that would be reportable under the current version of Rule 4560. The extent of use of this and other types of synthetic short
Thank you FINRA for opening the opportunity to comment on Regulatory Notice 21-19 to all investors. Theoughout Throughout last two years, I, along with many others, have enjoyed expanding my knowledge base of the stock market. The more I've learned about the stock matket, the less faith I have in the system. I can open an app on my smart phone anywhere in the world, send money through my
