On October 12, 2022, the SEC amended Rule 17a-4. FINRA has prepared a chart that summarizes the most significant changes.
I use inverse funds to hedge gains in other investments. I understand leveraged and inverse funds and know the risks involved. My portfolio is up 8% already this year, whereas the S&P is down ~14% since the beginning of 2022.
I oppose any restrictions or limitations on my right to invest in publicly available investments. I don't need to pass any test to be able to invest
FINRA Rule 1210.09 established a waiver program for eligible individuals who left a member firm to work for a foreign or domestic financial services affiliate of a member firm with FINRA. FSAWP participants will be granted a waiver of their requalification requirements, including the Securities Industry Essentials® (SIE®) Exam, upon reapplying with FINRA within a single, fixed seven-year period,
Restrictions on who can trade leveraged funds is not a good solution. Retail investors deserve to have the same access to the markets as professional investors. Personally, I made alot of money in 2021 and lost most of it in 2022 in leveraged trading...and , while nobody wants to lose money, I am completely ok with it because I got to choose when to buy and when to sell... it's freedom
Comments: I do believe having transparency is important. Regulators have done great things in the past to clarify concepts that a layman does not interact with regularly. Thanks to regulators, banks have to disclose APR's with clients, ensuring that the risks are fully understood. However, I feel that this level of scrutiny is unwarranted, biased, exclusionary, and has an unfair impact
On Monday, October 17, 2022, FINRA will conduct a Market Wide Circuit Breaker (MWCB) event in the Test Facility (NTF) for the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF). The MWCB will start at approximately 3 p.m. ET and run for five minutes. During this time ORF trade attempts will be rejected. The system will resume normal operations after the conclusion of the NTF MWCB event.
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A vibrant and efficient capital-raising process fosters business expansion, job creation, innovation and economic growth. FINRA members play a critical role in facilitating capital formation for businesses of all sizes. FINRA supports the capital-raising process through appropriately tailored rules for its members that are designed for the benefit of all market participants.
Since Monday, December 5, 2022, FINRA is experiencing an issue with ORF clearing messages for transactions that are cancelled, corrected or broken and thus causing duplicates settlement for those transactions. FINRA is working on a solution and will update clients as more details are known.
Clients should work with their clearing firm to submit reversals directly to NSCC for the duplicate
On Thursday, November 17, 2022, FINRA will conduct an Extraordinary Market Halt (EMC) event in the Test Facility (NTF) for the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF). The EMC will start at approximately 4:15 p.m. ET and run for approximately 10 minutes. During this time ORF trade attempts will be rejected. The system will resume normal operations after the conclusion of the NTF EMC event.
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On Thursday, November 10, 2022, FINRA will conduct an Extraordinary Market Halt (EMC) event in the Test Facility (NTF) for the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF). The EMC will start at approximately 4:15 p.m. ET and run for approximately 10 minutes. During this time ORF trade attempts will be rejected. The system will resume normal operations after the conclusion of the NTF EMC event.
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