I have spent 50 years perfecting my investment process both personally and for clients. I managed to survive and flourish through 8-9 bear markets. I accomplish this by using the most broadest of diversifications including being able to sell short markets. Inverse etfs including leveraged ones are important tools to have in the tool box to accomplish this. they are convenient and in many ways
Short selling is been used in a malicious way to hurt the retail investors and please must be stopped. Younger generations losing trust in the stock market is growing and in the long run will affect the overall and trust in our economy. Thank you!!
While short positions is legal and should remain so, predatory shorting that harms American companies, it's consumers, and American investors should be abolished. Greater monitoring of the practice and regulatory enforcement to prevent it from occurring is desperately needed. "Dark Pool" trading in particular is should be illegal and have those that participate in it the subject of
I approve of these actions. Especially, naked call selling with high amounts of volume. This practice is know as synthetic shorting. Its used by funds to drive down price on higher speculative stocks. All information on this info should be accessible to all.
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 with
These inverse etfs help me hedge my portfolio in periods of downturn. I don't beleive you have the right to tell me whatvto invest in. These are available for bigbinsitutions in some form or another and are easer for me to use instead of shorting individual stocks myself.
- Stop illegal naked short selling - Change T+2 to T+0, retail investors should know what hedge funds know - Audits need to happen by regulatory agencies to ensure shorts and FTDs are not being hidden in options. - Punishments need to be severe enough to ensure it doesn't continue, and in a timely manner. - Large hedgefunds and Market Makers are run by the same company. They need to be
I would like to see changes in the reporting of shorts taken place in real time, full transparency from all investors from insiders to retail investors (with an emphasis on hedge funds), discontinued use of algorithmic trading tactics, synthetic shares, loop holes used to create selling pressure, and any other market manipulation tactics. I want to see real action taken to prevent and correct
I’m not educated nor do I speak/write English well. But the way the stock market works, it seem that the rich have a different rules while retail have very limited tools. Why are they allowed to short stocks without reporting? Why are they allowed to manipulate prices via dark pools? It’s like we are watching a game of football, betting which sides win, but retail only see 25% of the field while
You are requested to comment on these proposals. Let's face it, the Hedge Funds are going to be using their voices to prevent these changes from occurring so we need to use our voice too. There are a lot more apes than Hedgies. I've cut and pasted just some of the proposals (man, if you think this is a long and dry read, wait until you read the webpage): - Account-level Position
