I have a small portfolio of buy and hold individual stocks and bond funds. To balance my market risk, I always keep several investments that tend to move opposite of the general market. I strenuously object to any government action to remove my ability to protect my investment in a down market without selling my portfolio
Help us get to T+1 and then to T+0. Help us get rid of payment for order flow. These two things alone will help the naked short crisis that we're witnessing across the market and put more trust in us. Fines should be astronomical on those caught red handed instead of the slaps on the wrists that we know that finra has done in the past. I'm tired of people keep thinking that retail
Dark Pools need to be gone, if the market is fear and fair. Where is the transparency? Short Sale Restrictions must be enforced, currently it’s a joke. Failure To Deliver must be fully enforced. If I sell something I don’t deliver the items but I keep the money, that’s stealing! Currently your rules are joke. No retail investor benefits from your rules if they are no fully enforced. If I drink
Much more transparency is needed in regards to the number of current short sale positions including percentage that have been closed on a daily basis. For far too long retail investors have been dealt a bad hand going against hedge funds who have access to all the detail we do not. Please make the markets what they are supposed to be which is free and fair. Please enforce and intensify the rules
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Hello, I will keep my comment brief. I am a $XXX,XXX.XX retail investor that humbly supports any and proposed measures to improve transparency and data accuracy for retail investors. While the term “free market” is a farce, I do believe we should have a fair market which currently we do not. Institutional shorting data is horribly unreported given the 2 week delay in reporting in addition to its
Over regulation is hurting not only Stock Brokers ,it is hurting Insurance Agents as well. Regulators should not be able to kill an industry just so they can justify their jobs. With Fixed Index Annuities the suitability forms and requirements are beyond reason, and have killed millions of dollars worth of sales, and hurt millions of agents and potential customers.
I am a Registered Nurse with no formal financial/stock education. I however can do my own due diligence when it comes to what stocks I decide to buy and invest in. The inverse/leveraged ETFs allow me to easily diversify and lower my overall risks. STAY OUT OF MY ACCOUNTS AND FOCUSE YOUR TIME ON SOMETHING USEFUL!
FINRA,
I strongly appose proposed restrictions on inverse and leveraged Exchange Traded Funds. I have used both of these to very effectively hedge long fixed income and equity positions over short exposure periods. Removing access to these funds will force me into the listed options market to construct similar hedges that more complicated, expensive, entail more basis risk and require more
In short, I oppose any restrictions on my ability to invest in public investments. In my opinion, individual investors should be able to choose investments that are right for them, and all public investments should remain available to the public free of restrictions. Moreover, implementing additional measures in front of the public's ability to invest in their future would create barriers to
