This was my comment: The Reporting of Loan Obligations as Short Interest. Theory suggests that some participants are borrowing shares from ETF's to cover their existing short interest. This only results in the same exposure continuing to exist elsewhere in the market, in effect, the short position has not been closed, but rather, is moved off the books which affects the integrity on both
-Enhanced Failure to Delivery, Failure to Settle, Market Buy Ins, Market Lock Ins and FINRA to Publicly report these in a timely manner in .csv format on their website. The only data currently available is "Failures to Deliver" which is only 1 of several metrics. Retail and others would greatly benefit from the transparency added by simply providing this additional information about
This ability by hedge funds and market makers to indiscriminately and malignantly sell short in multiple ways to hide short interest hurts the market for retail. I’m sure if the entire retail sector of the market understood the various ways short interest is hidden and how their long investments were used against them to reduce the value of their investments, they would never invest in the market
The Reporting of Loan Obligations as Short Interest. Theory suggests that some participants are borrowing shares from ETF's to cover their existing short interest. This only results in the same exposure continuing to exist elsewhere in the market, in effect, the short position has not been closed, but rather, is moved off the books which affects the integrity on both ends of the affiliate
This was my comment: The Reporting of Loan Obligations as Short Interest. Theory suggests that some participants are borrowing shares from ETF's to cover their existing short interest. This only results in the same exposure continuing to exist elsewhere in the market, in effect, the short position has not been closed, but rather, is moved off the books which affects the integrity on both
The Reporting of Loan Obligations as Short Interest. Theory suggests that some participants are borrowing shares from ETF's to cover their existing short interest. This only results in the same exposure continuing to exist elsewhere in the market, in effect, the short position has not been closed, but rather, is moved off the books which affects the integrity on both ends of the affiliate
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Executive Summary
On September 20, 1994, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a proposed rule change by the NASD that amends the listing requirements in Parts II and III of Schedule D to the NASD By-Laws to impose specific delisting requirements for units listed on the Nasdaq National Market® and The
Shorting a company is fine, but malicious shorting and the use of naked shorting along with dark pool abuse is far from fine. The fact that hedge funds can do this is disgusting and a slap in the face of the retail investor. They need to be openly called out and exposed, and the use of naked shorting and dark pool abuse done away with.
Please approve the new rules to tighten up short interest reporting requirements. There are too many loopholes that short traders use to hide and obfuscate their true short interest (eg hiding shorts in deep OTM put contracts) which puts retail traders at an information disadvantage, which is anathema to free market principles.
Section C: "...short interest reports could be due by 6:00 p.m. ET one business day after the designated reporting settlement date..." In this statement, it's the data that is fixed but the frequency is dynamic. For example, if there's no short sale for 2 days then there will be a reporting gap. Consider that the reporting frequency be fixed but the content be dynamic. A daily
