As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiatives, beginning in December 2022, FINRA will re- platform the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) to a new Linux-based operating system. These changes will be implemented in addition to the Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS) protocol changes FINRA previously announced. Except for the timestamp changes listed below, all ORF trade reporting
Retail investors are already at a distinct dis advantage as far as technology and ability to manipulate like the large investors, short sales should be reported daily and the fines for manipulation should be more than a slap on the wrist where the large investors weigh fines versus profit and laugh as they take the fine Retail investors need a closer fair field of play or you will see the stock
I have been in the market for almost 5 years now, but really started this year to learn the ins and outs of the so called “free” market. I’ve never seen such negligence by MM, Hedge funds, and the sec. yes my own government has utterly let me down. What are actual numbers on short interest of so called meme stocks. How does upwards of 60% go through dark pools that I have zero knowledge of. This
All of that should already be in place. Synthetic shorts are an illegal practice anyways, so reporting them would just oust the form doing them thus implicating them in a crime. But yes they should be reported; As the amount of synthetic shares could and most like does in fact dwarf the actual share count of a particular stock if the hedge funds are trying to bankrupt them. Examples being
I believe, as a retail investor who wants to keep investing in the future, the more transparency we have in the markets the better. Wanting a level playing field is well within reason, and shorting companies into the ground to kill them off is wrong, I don't think that will change but some of the other predatory practices and illegal tactics that have been uncovered are worrisome to say the
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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,
Thank you for considering these changes and taking an interest in retail investor opinions about them. I will keep it brief. First, it is no secret that stock shorting has become a practice that works in a way that is predatory to American businesses. Second, with decades of deregulation within financial markets the people who do engage in the more predatory forms of shorting have used antiquated
Public GovernorFormer Director, SEC Division of TradingGovernor Since 2025Committees: Executive Committee, Regulatory Policy CommitteeProfessional ExperiencePrincipal, Gaillard Group LLC (2022 – Present)Managing Director and General Counsel, Citadel Securities (2017 – 2022)Director, Division of Trading & Markets, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (2014 – 2017)Partner,
I am a novice retail investor and learning more each day. Here are a few remarks: 1. If naked or synthetic short is illegal, why allow it to happen? A company that issued 30 million shares should not be trading 100 million shares. 2. Rule breakers should pay fine to security agencies (SEC, FINRA, NTCC, etc.), compensate clients, and be restricted from trading certain stocks for a period of time.
