Here are a few suggestions to help regulate and enforce short sales that have gotten out of control in my opinion. 1. Reduce the reporting period to weekly (or preferably daily) from biweekly. 2. Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts. 3. Reduce the holding period for reported days from 4 days to 2 or fewer. 4. Document and release the
TLDR. I got an idea, instead of pretending the stock market is not a casino under house rules FINRA should explain the house rules in a 1 page document that everyone can read. The rules should include which parties can naked short sale with ridiculous margin on which stocks, which stocks will permanently cyclically fail to deliver and why, and why the DTCC has an obligation warehouse that the
Shorting stocks should be illegal! It is only a way to manipulate price! If you wanna play you gotta pay!!!
Citadel is aggressively manipulating the price of sever stocks, and improving short reporting will expose that. These changes SHOULD take effect.
Daily reporting for short sales. Fails to deliver result in 150% fine paid to the purchaser of stock that was failed to deliver.
Dear FINRA Staff, It seems to me that Citadel (including some of its subsidiaries) is taking advantage of its status as a market maker and at the same time as a hedge fund with exceptionally high short interest in AMC (and also in Gamestop). Based on the data available through fintel.io, Ortex and other sources, it seems they are manipulating prices in their favor. For me, the assumption is close
Melvin Capital complaint - lack of reporting regarding naked short positions leading to chart manipulation through darkpools. I hope something is done about behavior indicative of intentional malevolent chart manipulation by hedge funds developing bad risk analysis putting the broader markets in jeopardy by aggressively naked shorting stock with little regard for who's money they are putting
I believe that inverse funds are necessary to effectively manage my portfolio. As an individual investor it can be very challenging to hedge against market volatility and large draw-downs in the market. Inside retirement accounts, I have very few tools to hedge my portfolio, shorting and options are generally not allowed. That leaves buying of inverse ETFs as one of the few options to provide
It is commonly understood that for every transaction the terms of the exchange is known by both parties and executed faithfully to produce what we consider the stock market. Technology now allows for near instant transactions for market participants, therefore the due diligence of reporting that transaction to regulatory authorities should occur simultaneously with the transaction itself. This
I feel these leveraged funds are an important tool for short term hedging, and their price move potential is no more than other volatile stocks or derivatives.
