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
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On September 12, 1994, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an NASD rule change that amends the Prompt Receipt and Delivery of Securities Interpretation (Interpretation) issued by the NASD Board of Governors under Article III, Section 1 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. Specifically,
I would like to begin by thanking you for taking our comments. I have a few general comments before I attempt to address any of the points raised in your "Background and Discussion" and "Request for Comments" sections. To summarize my position: how is it possible that in an era of rapid trading in which computers execute thousands (or more) trades per second on any given
Hello. I would like to see all short interest positions reported with a T+1. Transparency in the stock market is important and currently there is too much hidden from the general public. Please make the changes necessary for the public to believe in fairness in the stock market. Because currently, the general public believe it's heavily skewed towards those individuals/institutions with more
Here’s a simpler solution…. Selling a stock that you don’t own should be illegal. Eliminate (naked) short selling… period.
I notice you are welcoming comments on regulatory notice 21-19 regarding short positions. In my opinion, the current US financial system is highly fraudulent, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit by complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehanna being allowed to happen
I have been investing for 20+ years and I am retired and manage my own portfolio. I rarely use reverse or leveraged stocks but sometimes that is the only way I have to protect my portfolio. I understand the risks but I ALSO know the risks of not protecting not protecting it. I do not short stocks because that has unlimited risks also. Please leave the system alone so we retail investors can
Improved reporting for short positions is long overdue. As proven by the research done on "meme stocks" like GME and AMC there are a wide variety of ways for institutions to hide their short positions from others. Some of these include shorting of ETFs, using married puts and other options plays and simply lying with willingness to accept a small fine. The market overall needs more
As a mostly outside observer who has be diving into the inner workings of the mechanics behind short selling, I've noticed that the lack of transparency effectively makes it impossible to determine the overall value of the short positions that exist, along with a lack of information about how many synthetic shares are created and how positions are opening and closing on a regular basis. This
Please investigate criminal activity such as naked shorting..... into any hedge funds that are illegally affecting a market of any given stock.
