Summary
Effective May 14, 2022, the Section 31 fee rate applicable to specified securities transactions on the exchanges and in the over-the-counter markets will increase from its current rate of $5.10 per million dollars in transactions to a new rate of $22.90 per million dollars in transactions.
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To whom it may concern, Do not take away my right to invest in a leverage and inverse funds nor should you restrict us small investors. You do not restrict the large firm to short stock or inverse funds but you go after the little guy so you give the big large firms the edge to win and beat the little guy. We small investors want to invest and have level playing field. If you really want to make
I am very disappointed how financial regulators are trying to take away power of individual investors to freely invest in public ETFs - leveraged or inversed - which are listed in the public market because they were approved by financial institutions. Yet, the same financial regulators do not place any restrictions on investing "professionals" who short the market or individual
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiatives FINRA will re- platform the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) to a new Linux-based operating system. These changes will include Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS) protocol changes, and ORF will begin supporting timestamps up to nanosecond granularity (HH:MM:SS.sssssssss) in accordance with amendments to FINRA’s equity trade reporting
All investing or trading is an educated guess, it is all still making a bet on what stock, commodity or the market will do. If we were in Las Vegas it would be educated gambling. I have personally had JDST, JNUG, DUST and NUGT in my portfolio. I and others I know trade these types of investments, some doing it as day traders for at least the last 5 years. When the next recession hits, it would be
Having used leveraged long & short funds for several years I can honestly say that they have helped me make small capital gains while hedging against market volatility. During a recent Nasdaq sell off, losses in long stocks were compensated by the shares of SQQQ that I own. WTI oil has been volatile lately. Scaling out of UCO's as oil rises & simultaneously scaling into SCO
TO: NASD Members and NASDAQ Level 2 and Level 3 Subscribers
Effective December 21, 1984, an additional 25 NASDAQ National Market System (NASDAQ/NMS) securities will begin trading in the Small Order Execution System (SOES). SOES began successfully on December 14 with over 66,000 shares in 25 different stocks traded during the first day of operation. (A list of those securities is contained in
Proposed Rule Change Relating to Over-the-Counter Equity Trade Reporting and OATS Reporting
If short sellers can lower the price of a stock, they must be bound to honor the transaction. Through numerous holes in the system, short sellers are able, without serious legal or financial repercussions, to drag out settlement (apparently) indefinitely or avoid settlement altogether. Utilization of such settlement avoidance techniques is a violation of Federal law. That is, crimes -- a (RICO)
It is unfortunate that the system must be an "US vs THEM" system, especially when they don't have to play by the same rules that we, the little guy, the 99%, the "dumb money", the "retail investor, has to follow. Things I would like to see changed: -- There needs to be more transparency. We need to be able to see the shorts. We need to see the FTDs. Short positions
