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Given the growing market for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, such as OTC options on individual equity securities and stock indexes, and the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) recent approval of increases in option position and exercise limits, the NASD reminds
To whom it may concern: 1. Consolidation of short interest data publication, centralized on the FINRA website should be made public. 2. Require firms to segregate short interest held in proprietary accounts vs that held in customer accounts. 3. Report to FINRA account-level short interest (not for publication). 4. Report synthetic short positions in both options and security based swaps. 5.
Please do Not limit me or my financial investment adviser by limiting the use of leveraged products. Granted these are aggressive products, but everything about stock buying or stock shorting, is aggressive. These products are simply tools to be used at the appropriate time. For example, during big market corrections in the past they give you a chance to recover more quickly from a 20% plus
Shorting stock needs better regulations
Comments:I have used various leveraged etf in conjunction with my stocks and mutual funds for years. Im an individual investor with a regular job. Anyone investing in this category is responsible to do their own research regarding the risks and benefits on the direction website. There is short but effective information readily available pertaining to the nature of these levaraged investments. As
I oppose having restrictions placed on leveraged ETF;s for the following reasons: 1. There are many individual securities (stocks and funds) that are more volatile than leveraged ETFs 2, Volatility is not risk and more meaningful is the trend of its moving average. e. Volatility provide investors an opportunity to achieve their objective in a shorter time period. Rather than impose restrictions
Hello FINRA, Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategy. For example in a downward market trend (Q1 2022) I am able to invest in an inverse leveraged fund (e.g., SQQQ) to mitigate downside risk associated with my individual stock NASDAQ investments. As my individual NASDAQ investments declined the loss was offset by my investment in SQQQ. This helped me protect (hedge) my
You should only be able to short positions you own. Dark pools should be off limits and to curb that, I believe DTCC 005 now requires, or will require, to mark/stamp each shorted stock as to prevent them from being naked shorted. We need to punish the market manipulators who are naked shorting shares they don't own (Naked shorting). Without oversight, this market manipulation will continue
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The Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved amendments to Appendix E to Article III, Section 33, of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. These amendments will require members to develop and maintain written
I use leveraged and inverse ETF to hedge my positions in stocks and also to increase or decrease my long and short positions.I also take a position in the ETF when i want a position in a stock index and not an individual stock.These are easy and simple to understand and use and are a big help to small investors.Keep the system as it is working!.