FINRA announced today that it has fined BofA Securities, Inc. $24 million for engaging in more than 700 instances of spoofing through two former traders in U.S. Treasury secondary markets and related supervisory failures spanning more than six years.
Stop trying to limit investment options for individual investors! There is absolutely no good reason for this recent push to regulate inverse and leveraged ETFs. If people/hedge funds can use leverage and short markets in other ways then why not via ETF?! Unless for some reason you don't want individuals to have a convenient option to short or use leverage?? Bizarre use of your time. -Sean
Money you make on an investment is considered a capital gain, and in most cases, you’ll need to pay a capital gains tax. If your investment loses money, you have a capital loss. Your capital gain or loss is the difference between the sale price and the cost basis, and the tax rate depends on how long you held the investment.
To pass this regulation and eliminate certain investment vehicles, such as leveraged vehicles or the ability to go short on certain vehicles, implies several onerous things. Such as attempted regulatory manipulation of the market in one direction and secondly an insult to the intelligence of certain investors.
Why should vehicles that go short be more risky than vehicles that go long ?
Such laws
I use leveraged funds to give a little spark to my otherwise strictly dividend portfolio. Always less than 5% of portfolio value. I also use them for short periods to enhance returns on a sector that is in current demand. They are always used in small proportion and for short periods of time.
Been using them for years. I like them and believe I should have the choice to use them. Let the
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Why Finra always consider leverage and inverse product are the most dangerous? What about growth stocks that swings more than leverage? Like Lucid, Sofi, AMC, GME etc stocks that are up and down huge percent a day are not dangerous? How can you regulate and educate people? Stock market by itself is very risky and the valuation can be changed at any time no matter how much you know about the
Hello I want to suggest a new rule with all financial operations of any kind by any broker is instantly reported, it's 2021 after all - and that all these operations were transparent and public via your websites - with multiple layers of depth so that "new" retail investors like myself could understand the basics easily - and that it would be multiple levels of depth for the more
Reporting needs to be more than monthly, weekly at latest. It also needs to be changed so that it 100% accurately identifies short interest and delineates between real and synthetic borrowed shares for short interest. Fines should also be such that they accumulate to a point that a rule breaker will not be able to just choose to keep paying the fine and committing the crime.
Hedge funds used obfuscation and blatant disregard for the rules to extract capital from retail. This became blatantly obvious with the manipulation throughout the last year. I am asking for more frequent public reporting of short positions and more detail in public reports. Increased enforcement of the current rules against naked short selling is a given.
