It is in the best interest of all participants invested in the stock market to have potentially influential information when making important, calculated, and delicate financial decisions. With additions made to FINRA's short sale reporting program, specifically the procedures as instructed by Rule 4560, a gob of data can capture the eyes of all investors to help make better informed
First I want to say that the money I use to invest or trade the market is mine and I should be able to use it as I see fit. I often use inverse funds to hedge or take advantage of short term pull backs in the market. It seems to me to be a lot easier to buy an inverse fund than to acquire shares to short or use an options strategy. I also often use long leveraged funds to take advantage of the
I use the ProShares Ultra Short S&P 500 (2X) as an efficient hedging vehicle vs. long positions in U.S. stocks and stock funds for my personal accounts. I do it in a limited, judicious way and it affords me a smoothing mechanism to offset deep downturns in the broad market, of which we've had several in the last 4-5 years, allowing me to compound a higher level of principal in bull
I would like to have more transparency around what stocks are shorted.
The stock market is a crap shot. Volatility has increased tremendously since the DOWN TICK RULE TO SHORT was removed. Whether you buy a leveraged/ inverse fund or NETFLIX, AMAZON, or commodities, they all go up and they all go down. THATS THE GAME. Diversity isnt working now either with bonds AND stocks trading lower. Thats the game.
The naked shorting needs to be stopped. No one has confidence in the American stock market and I don't want to see it wrecked by shady institutions. Everyone will lose if this happens. Please do the right thing and make the stock market work like it should to be am outlet of wealth growth for everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to offer feedback.
Shares should have a tracking number on them. Trading would be simplified and tracking fraud would be easy to find. Locates also need to be recorded as soon as they are put in use and or taken off the books when finished using...... IN A CENTRALIZED PLACE FOR ALL TO SEE.... As of right now. creating more float than available is a major problem. When the float of a company is held... The price
Dear mod I’m a full time trader since 2015! I experienced allots of good company stock destroyed by short seller. So many of investors are in the road because of then and some of them wait years but shorts never cover their positions! I really want finra to change this system as soon as possible. I’m sure this will help the regulator investor ( thank you )
Naked shorting must be totally stopped ! We need a fair open stock market that is a equal on all levels for Anyone and everyone that makes any investment in all markets. Time limits must be placed on shorting, The dark pools have an unfair advantage they should be shut down , you play in the open for all to see or you don’t play !
THE HEDGE FUNDS ACCOUNTABLIY REGARDING REPORTING FTD'S AND NAKED STOCKS IN SHORT POSITIONS.
