If I want to short a stock, or use a regular or inverse ETF, that is my choice. Americans are supposed to be equal, and have to the same opportunities that the more wealthy have. A lot of leveraged funds provide tremendous opportunities for the active investor, and do exactly what they're meant to do. I don't need to attend university or work for Goldman Sachs to have access
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FINRA and the other U.S. members of the Intermarket Surveillance Group1 (ISG members) have updated certain data elements for Electronic Blue Sheets (EBS) to reflect the SEC’s December 21, 2018 approval of MIAX Emerald and the name change of Chicago Stock Exchange to NYSE Chicago, Inc. The updates are effective immediately.
Attachments A and B to this Notice set forth the EBS record
FINRA's Financial Intelligence Unit acts as a nerve center for information on emerging threats impacting the financial industry with the aim of providing actionable intelligence to firms, other regulators and law-enforcement to keep investors safe. On this episode, we learn how the group has grown in recent years and hear how they are evolving the way they share information.
When purchasing securities, you may pay for them in full or may borrow part of the purchase price from your securities firm. If you choose to borrow funds from a firm, you must open (or have) a margin account with the firm. Some brokerage firms use margin accounts as their default type of account.The portion of the purchase amount that you must deposit is called margin and is
Comments: I am an investor, an advisor, a father, a son, husband and business owner. I have used these leveraged products in small amounts and I feel there is a lot of warnings, disclaimers, etc on these already. If anything maybe make the warning bigger or more bold but don't limit the access of these. That would in my mind do the following 1-increase risk because it would limit volume and
1. Buy orders vs sell orders buy orders show more inflow and the price drops. 2. Naked shorting, synthetic shares. With amc the CEO gave good information about share holders and the amount per stock holder on average. This number does not add up with the volume of buy and sell orders. 3. It's a simple supply demand the supply is small and demand high. How can the price constantly dropping if
TO: Selected NASD Members
Under the AT & T divestiture program, for every ten shares of existing ("old") AT & T owned, shareholders of record December 30, 1983 will receive one share in each of seven newly-formed regional holding companies, while continuing to own ten shares of divested ("new") AT & T as well.
Beginning Monday, November 21, 1983,
It does not make sense to limit leveraged investments as long as I can get a mortgage for 20% or less down payment in an asset which can lose 50% in the matter of months during a recession. How can that be safer than using leveraged and inverse investments? I'll tell you that it's not, in fact is significantly less safer. What harm is it to limit inverse investments when
To whom it may concern;
It is deeply disturbing that thee are proposed limitations on leveraged and inverse ETFs being discussed. Although concerns are valid that these investments do carry increased risk, anyone who does their due diligence reading the forms and prospectuses and looking at the one, five, and ten year charts can see whether the investment is a hedge/short term only (most inverse
I find the inverse funds a valuable tool for a small investor that also trades options. In time like now with a lot of volatility they open up alot of investing options that a long only investor does not even know about. Keep your trading limited to what know and pick good stocks and inverse funds that you understand and a small investor will do just fine. I disagree with the use of naked shorts
